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For GUI interface to Tesseract and other 3rd Party projects, please see User Projects - 3rd Party

External tools, wrappers and training projects for Tesseract

Tesseract box editors and training tools

Platform support depends on used language and experience of user.

For Tesseract-OCR 3.0x

Box file editors

Name	Last update	Language	Multipage support
jTessBoxEditor	2018	Java	yes
QT Box Editor	2018	C++, Qt4/Qt5	yes
tesseract-box-editor	2013	.NET 4	yes
Tesseract-OCR boxfile AJAX editor	2012	online tool
cowboxer	2012	C++, Qt4	no
moshPyTT	2011	Python, GTK2	no
pytesseracttrainer	2011	Python, GTK2	no

For Tesseract-OCR 2.0x

Box file editors

Name	Last update	Language
Tesseract-OCR boxfile AJAX editor	2012	online tool
owlboxer	2010	C++, Qt4
Tessboxer	2009	.NET
boxfilereader.php	2009	php
tessboxes	2008	C
JTesseract	2008	C#
wx-tetra	2008	perl, wx
bbtesseract	2008	VB.NET 2008

Other Training Tools

• jTessBoxEditor | Box Editor and Training Tool

• MzTesseract - MS Windows program that can train new language from top to bottom

• FrankenPlus - tool for creating font training for Tesseract OCR engine from page images. More information about Franken+ is at at IT'S ALIVE! and Franken+ homepage.

• python-tesseract-3.02-training - script to automate the generation of Tesseract 3.02 training files

• tesseract-box-file - autoit script to make editing the box file easier

• Serak Tesseract Trainer for Tesseract 3.02 - a front end GUI for training tesseract 3.02

• BoxMaker is online tool for generating image&box pair. Offline version is available in download section of PersianOCR project

• boxFactory is a tool for quickly creating box files to train the Tesseract OCR engine. You can identify characters in the image by simply drawing boxes around them.

• https://github.com/BaltoRouberol/TesseractTrainer - TesseractTrainer is a simple Python API, taking over the tedious process of manually training Tesseract3

• tess_school - a set of handy scripts to make the tesseract training process a bit easier

• txt2img: Qt GUI application that generate image and box file based on text imput

• DangAmbigs Generator: Creates a DangAmbigs file automatically given a set of OCR text output and correct text. Requirements: Python

• train.ps1: Windows powershell script for Automate Tesseract 3.01 language data pack generation process.

• Update unicharambigs.exe: A small (windows) C# program for editing "lang.unicharambigs" file

• train_tess.pl: perl script to facilitate training

• boxedit A web-based editor for Tesseract box files

• TrainYourTesseract | Free online "no-hassle" TTF file to trainedata converter

Community training projects

• Tesseract-MICR-OCR: https://github.com/BigPino67/Tesseract-MICR-OCR
• MRZ: https://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr/attach/10d7c711c9cc80/mrz.traineddata
• Latin: https://github.com/ryanfb/latinocr-lattraining
• tesseract-georgian: https://github.com/ddohler/tesseract-georgian
• Polish Fraktur: training as result of the IMPACT project, trained dataset
• Ancient Greek: http://ancientgreekocr.org
• Indic: http://code.google.com/p/tesseractindic/, https://github.com/debayan/Tesseract-Indic-OCR/, http://code.google.com/p/parichit/ (All are Obsolete)
• Indic-OCR http://indic-ocr.github.io/tessdata/
• Irish uncial: https://github.com/jimregan/tesseract-gle-uncial
• Polish: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-polish/
• Fraktur (dan, deu, swe): https://github.com/paalberti/tesseract-dan-fraktur
• Myanmar: http://code.google.com/p/myaocr/
• Persian (Farsi): https://github.com/reza1615/PersianOcr
• 7 segments font: https://github.com/arturaugusto/display_ocr/tree/master/letsgodigital

Ports

• Project Naptha
• tesseract.js-core - Emscripten port of Tesseract C++ API
• tesseract.js - Pure Javascript OCR

Tesseract wrappers

Tesseract 3.0x

C

• Tesseract versions 3.02 and up include C API

.Net

• charlesw/tesseract - project offers also tesseract-ocr 64bit Windows library
• http://code.google.com/p/tesseractdotnet/

Python

• tesserocr - A Python wrapper around Tesseract's C++ API
• pyocr - A Python wrapper for Tesseract (and Cuneiform)
• tesserwrap - Python bindings to the Tesseract API
• tesseract-sip - A python SIP wrapper for libtesseract (Apache license)
• http://code.google.com/p/pytess/ - A simple SWIG-based interface to Tesseract
• http://code.google.com/p/python-tesseract/ is a wrapper class for Tesseract OCR that allows any conventional image files (SWIG based)

R

• tesseract Bindings to the C++ API for the R programming language

Ruby

• ruby-tesseract-ocr - wrapper for tesseract 3.0x using the C++ API
• rtesseract

Java

• [bytedeco] (https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp-presets/tree/master/tesseract) - JNA Wrapper from Bytedeco collection of utilities - https://bytedeco.org - https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp-presets
• tess4j - JNA wrapper. Docs and discussions - http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/

Node.js

• penteract - The native node.js bindings to the Tesseract OCR project.

PHP

• tesseract-ocr-for-php
• https://code.google.com/p/php-tesseract/

Objective-C

• Tesseract-macOS
• Tesseract-OCR-iOS
• tesseract-ios

Go

• gosseract

Clojure

• clj-tesseract

Tesseract 2.0x

Python

• https://github.com/hoffstaetter/python-tesseract/wiki
• http://code.google.com/p/pytesser/
• http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-python (pytesser clone)
• https://github.com/hoffstaetter/python-tesseract/wiki
• http://pokerai.org/pf3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2677&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
• patches of SWIG wrapper for python

.NET

• http://www.pixel-technology.com/freeware/tessnet2/

Java

• tess4j (0.4) - JNA wrapper. Docs and discussions - http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/