Editing Research/OCR (section)

=tesseract=
https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

Teassearct is OCR software. It was initially developed by HP Labs between 1985 and 1995 currently its development is sponsored by Google.

It is free software, released under the Apache License.

==install==
===Debian:=== 
 aptitude install tesseract-ocr

===Mac:===
using [http://brew.sh/ homebrew] need to run the commands:

 brew install leptonica --with-libtiff
 brew install tesseract --all-languages
https://gist.github.com/henrik/1967035


==Run==
===Preparing source files===
source files (image) should:
* be in .png or .tiff format
* color-space: 2-bit, black (text) & white (background) 
* have at least 300dpi - otherwise the text recognition will be very sloppy
* contain only one column text
* contain no images - replace them by white square

===command===
 tesseract input.tiff output

will result in OCRed file output.txt

==Languages==
By default tesseract is optimized to work with English language. This behavior can be change by installing extra packages required for other languages and by giving it the correct setting.

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