Talk:Tesseract (software)

message: Although most of Tesseract is free software under the Apache License v2.0, the Aspirin neural network engine  may not be. I've no idea if that license is free. I might email the FSF and ask - David Gerard 20:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems Aspirin was removed in v. 1.02. Rwxrwxrwx 18:25, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I finally got email back from the FSF - they asked Google about that bit of the licence and Google apparently went "oops" :-) - David Gerard 16:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Not quite free software?

message: Tesseract seems rather technically challenging to install/configure.  FreeOCR is built on it, and may be more user-friendly for people who have the required Windows 2K/XP.  Archivista Box is a complete document management solution Linux livecd that includes Tesseract.   The iso download is here:  Do any other livecds include Tesseract? Does anyone make it available as on online tool?  It is odd that this is a google project, but they aren't making it available in readily usable forms. -69.87.204.80 20:34, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Tesseract is available on the Ubuntu repositories via the Synaptic package manager. It is therefore very easy to install, just a matter of checking a couple of boxes. Using it from the command line is also very simple as described in the Ubuntu Documentation - Ahunt (talk) 12:31, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: User-friendly versions

message: If you use Tesseract, please feel free to put this userbox on your user page!
Code	Result
    	
- Ahunt (talk) 12:20, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Userbox

message: I've just tried to scan a file on Ubuntu.  I got this output:
 screenshot.bmp: Not a TIFF or MDI file, bad magic number 19778 (0x4d42).
It seems that Tesseract wants a TIFF, or Microsoft's proprietary version of TIFF.  No BMP.  That contradicts the article. — Chameleon 23:53, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You are quite right: the article is wrong and the Ubuntu wiki is right. I will fix the article. If you use ".tif" (and only that extension) it works really well. - Ahunt (talk) 00:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Formats

message: A spell checker is not integrated, it seems.-- Matthead  Discuß   13:02, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No it isn't. - Ahunt (talk) 14:50, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  BTW, thank you very very much for replacing the link to a web page explaining how to turn on the hOCR feature with a "Citation needed". This will improve the article and the reliability of wikipedia a lot. Keep up your good work. -- Matthead  Discuß   18:10, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And you should read WP:CIVIL because sarcasm like that isn't civil. You should also have a read of WP:SPS where it says: "Anyone can create a personal web page or pay to have a book published, then claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason, self-published media, such as books, patents, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, personal or group blogs, Internet forum postings, and tweets, are largely not acceptable as sources." If you can find a proper ref for that feature then great, otherwise the wording will be removed from the article as explained at WP:V, which says "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth; that is, whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true." - Ahunt (talk) 18:25, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you for making Wikipedia such a nice place. Please go ahead and remove the offending gibberish of mine. -- Matthead  Discuß   19:26, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Why don't you drop the incivility and find a ref for your text instead. I have done a search, but haven't found one yet. - Ahunt (talk) 20:01, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Had to go through the Tesseract Issues Logs but I found the whole history of it there and added it as a ref. It is a primary source, though so it would be ideal to have a reliable third party ref as well. - Ahunt (talk) 20:12, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spell checking? 

message: Should the reference to FreeOCR be removed from
the article on Tesseract (software) ?
The user comments section under URL:
    http://download.cnet.com/FreeOCR/3000-10743_4-10717191.html
emphatically identify FreeOCR as sneakware.
Please note: the intial download of FreeOCR 
is only a download of an installer; 
the installer itself passes virus scans, 
but then the installer goes on to download 
the bulk of the product.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.94.104.84 (talk) 20:09, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Oddly FreeOCR now redirects here to this article, but is not mentioned on the page. I think that redirect needs to be deleted. - Ahunt (talk) 12:46, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  - Ahunt (talk) 12:49, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the reference to FreeOCR be removed ? 

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replies: text: - Ahunt (talk) 16:59, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Tesseract is considered one of the most accurate open-source OCR engines currently available. 
The two references given are 6 and 9 years old. Are there any newer references? Otherwise the statement seems to be a little pretentious. 
--Dichter (talk) 13:09, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The refs are still valid, but I think it should be dated and I will add that. See what you think. - Ahunt (talk) 13:39, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  one of the most accurate open-source OCR ??

message: Does anybody have an official Tesseract page that uses the image that is listed as the logo here? The original URL for the image points to a consulting company that seems only tenuously related to Tesseract (though I didn't delve). I did an image search for the displayed image and only found this page and a few blog entries that likely cut/pasted from here. I think we should either post a citation to an official Tesseract page for the logo or cut it. B k (talk) 19:50, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ad hoc logo?