Capabilities

Google Tesseract OCR is an open-source optical character recognition (OCR) engine developed by Google. It's designed to recognize text within images and convert it into editable and searchable text. Tesseract OCR supports various image formats and languages, making it widely used for tasks such as document scanning, text extraction from images, and automated data entry.

Key Features:

1. Open-source: Tesseract OCR is freely available and maintained as an open-source project.
2. Language support: It supports over 100 languages for text recognition.
3. Image format support: Tesseract OCR can handle various image formats, including TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP.
4. Accuracy: It offers high accuracy in text recognition, especially with well-scanned and clear images.
5. Training capability: Tesseract OCR can be trained with custom data for improved recognition accuracy in specific domains or languages.

Use Cases:

1. Document digitization: Converting scanned documents, invoices, receipts, or forms into searchable and editable text for archival or data extraction purposes.
2. Text extraction: Extracting text content from images in applications such as image-based PDF processing, screenshot analysis, and image annotation.
3. Accessibility: Enabling visually impaired users to access text content in images through screen readers or assistive technologies.
4. Automated data entry: Parsing text from images in automation workflows for tasks like invoice processing, data extraction from images, and form filling.

Google Tesseract OCR is widely used in both personal and commercial applications due to its accuracy, language support, and open-source nature.