Quick proof of concept that performs OCR (optical character recognition) on images. Portable application, no installation or admin priviliges required.
The application is a simple GUI wrapper around tesseract.
It uses the compiled tesseract binaries from UB Mannheim version v5.0.0-alpha.20200328
Currently, German and English are the only supported OCR languages.
The code in this repository is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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NOTE: This software depends on other packages that may be licensed under different open source licenses.
Tesseract uses Leptonica library which essentially uses a BSD 2-clause license.