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What happened to Tesseract's "Math / equation detection module"?

I was able to get Tesseract to run via a Python script on my Windows machine to turn non-searchable PDFs into searchable ones. When downloading Tesseract onto windows, it asked me which languages I ...
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OCR high res images & combine OCR data later, after image compression?

I have a large number of .tif's coming out of ScanTailor. Is there a way that I might OCR those .tif's with tesseract, holding the OCR data separate from the images; then compress the images, and ...
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Best command-line OCR software for recognizing typed text over colorful background

I need to extract text from images like the one below: As you can see, the text is typed not handwritten. Moreover, the background is colorful. I've tried Tesseract OCR, and while it works some of ...
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Using tesseract for character recongniton, result is not as expected (much worse). How to get better?

I wanted to add output of Linux boot to my question and decided to try to use optical character recognition thinking now in 2022 surely there should be decent open source options (have not tried OCR ...
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Is there software to manually OCR / teach OCR for handwriting (non-english) texts?

I had a problem that can't solve Tesseract/Abbyy Finereader etc - they can't recognize handwriting Russian as example. So I search OCR software for such things or a way to manually OCR my pdfs (...
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Tesseract: High CPU Usage and slow speed, only when running multiple processes in parallel

Problem pytesseract.image_to_string() takes too much time when I run the script through supervisordd, but executes almost instantaneously when run directly in shell (on the same server and ...
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tesseract: is it possible to change font output in OCRed pdf?

Following up on how to OCR a pdf file and get the text stored within pdf? I have successfully produced OCRed pdf pages. In Evince, however, the letters are not shown; by this I mean that I cannot see ...
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Where I can get Tesseract binaries for Debian 6 64bit?

I used apt-get to install Tesseract but it's not really working. Maybe I could just download binaries somewhere, put in a dir and use this way? What's wrong with my Tesseract now: tesseract --help ...
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