Tesseract-OCR - open source OCR engine Tesseract-OCR community

Tesseract-OCR is an open-source OCR (optical character recognition) engine designed to extract text from images or scanned documents.

Key Features:

• Supports multiple languages, including historic German scripts like Fraktur.
• Offers specialized models for improved accuracy with historical print materials.
• Available as a Windows installer for easy setup and use in environments where Linux is not feasible.
• Provides ALTO (Advanced Layout Text Object) output format for structured text extraction.
• Regular updates to improve performance and compatibility with modern and historic documents.

Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for researchers, libraries, archives, and anyone working with historical or printed materials. Tesseract-OCR enables accurate text recognition from scanned documents, facilitating digitization, transcription, and long-term preservation of valuable content. It can be installed via winget for seamless integration into workflows.