Hacker GitHub

← All repos

tesseract-ocr/tesseract

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 77,299 C++

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

68 mentions on Hacker News by 68 people: 9 stories, 59 comments · first 2015-06-25 · latest 2025-10-20

Mentions per year 68 mentions · busiest year 2017 (9)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. …of commits which didn't have many after the last release so I thought it hadn't been merged yet. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/graphs/commit-act...
    comment by ktta · 2017-11-10 · in Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning
  2. …supports[1]. In fact I'd say most OCR systems support it with varying degrees of accuracy. [1]: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i...
    comment by milesokeefe · 2017-11-09 · in Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning
  3. …if this is even a feasible idea. If so, it makes the paper key storage a lot more palatable. [1]: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
    comment by Karunamon · 2017-10-05 · in Strategies for offline PGP key storage
  4. If you plan on using tesseract definitely try out their 4.0 beta, which uses LSTMs. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/4.0-with-LST...
    comment by m_ke · 2017-07-11 · in Using Tesseract OCR with Python
  5. …identify the font the text is written in and prepare a custom trained dataset for it to use. See https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/TrainingTess...
    comment by mintplant · 2017-05-29 · in Extracting Chinese Hard Subs from a Video, Part 1
  6. ▲ 1
    Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine
    story by febin · 2017-02-24 · 0 comments
  7. …https://photomath.net/en/ Best off-the-shelf OCR (originally developed by HP, now Google): https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki Two Clojure talks... Machine Learning Live - Mike…
    comment by espeed · 2017-01-03 · in Ask HN: Does software exist to digitize scanned books and articles?
  8. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/READM... "The latest stable version is 3.04.01, released in February 2016." Was version 4 ever released?
    comment by avmich · 2016-12-21 · in Ionic OCR demo
  9. …best on images which have a DPI of at least 300 dpi, so it may be beneficial to resize images." - https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/ImproveQuali...
    comment by dunham · 2016-10-12 · in Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
  10. …results suffer from being unable to differentiate between n's and h's, i's and l's. [0] https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
    comment by jaytaylor · 2016-10-12 · in Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
  11. …my cursory check so if not you need to rename your library, because you're ripping off their name. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
    comment by employee8000 · 2016-10-12 · in Show HN: Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages
  12. …photos with cameras, so you can scan books - without cutting them up - to a high resolution. [0] https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract [1] https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/langdata
    comment by contingencies · 2016-09-03 · in Ask HN: What is the best open source OCR software supporting multiple languages?
  13. Would you mind commenting why Tesseract is out of date? I see developers are still active on it: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commits/master
    comment by marai2 · 2016-08-30 · in Doc2text – Detect text blocks and OCR poorly scanned PDFs in bulk
  14. For scanned images we use https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract . For text based PDFs we pull the text directly from the file and all languages are supported.
    comment by chezmo · 2016-07-21 · in Show HN: Convert PDF files into structured data
  15. Given that the OCR'ed PDFs use the "GlyphLessFont" font, it seems that tesseract [1] is used. [1] https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
    comment by raphman_ · 2015-12-16 · in Show HN: Convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs
  16. Tesseract: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract http://neilshroff.com/tesseract-ocr/doc/tesseracticdar2007.p... https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2014/11/13/command_line_ocr_on_...
    comment by jarmitage · 2015-10-18 · in Hosted Microsoft OCR library: Free OCR API web service
  17. …on PDF's. As for searching the PDF contents, Solr[3] might be what you are looking for instead. 1 - https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract 2 - http://fransdejonge.com/2012/04/ocr-text-in-pdf-with-tessera... 3-…
    comment by AdieuToLogic · 2015-09-09 · in Code to transform Hillary's emails from raw PDF documents to a SQLite database
  18. Tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
    comment by reinhardt1053 · 2015-06-25 · in Ask HN: Open source OCR library?