Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine and tool designed to convert printed or handwritten text from images into machine-readable digital text. It functions as a multilingual text extractor and a document digitization pipeline that transforms scanned images into structured digital formats.
The project includes a framework for training custom scripts and language-specific models, allowing the engine to recognize new languages or unique fonts through custom training data.
Its capabilities cover automated text extraction, digital archive digitization, and the export of recognized text into formats such as plain text, PDF, and ALTO.
