External tools, wrappers and training projects for Tesseract.

Tesseract box editors and traning 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	March 2015	Java	yes
QT Box Editor	July 2013	C++, Qt4/Qt5	yes
tesseract-box-editor	Feb 2013	.NET 4	yes
Tesseract-OCR boxfile AJAX editor	March 2012	online tool
cowboxer	Jan 2012	C++, Qt4	no
moshPyTT	Feb 2011	Python, GTK2	no
pytesseracttrainer	Jan 2011	Python, GTK2	no

For Tesseract-OCR 2.0x

Box file editors

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

Other Training Tools

• jTessBoxEditor | Box Editor and Training Tool

• MzTesseract - MS Windows program that can train new langauge 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

Community training projects

• Tesseract-MICR-OCR: https://github.com/BigPino67/Tesseract-MICR-OCR
• 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
• Chinese simplefied: see issue 296; download http://ubuntuone.com/p/3Yw/
• Indic: http://code.google.com/p/tesseractindic/, https://github.com/debayan/Tesseract-Indic-OCR/, http://code.google.com/p/parichit/ (All are Obsolete)
• 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
• Hebrew: http://roidayan.com/wordpress/?p=26, http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=432
• 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

Commercial Training Services

• http://www.tesseract-training.com/

Ports

• tesseract-emscripten: fork of tesseract for emscripten - part of Project Naptha

Tesseract wrappers

Tesseract 3.0x

C wrapper:

• 3.02 includes C API
• for 3.00 (and 3.01?) see http://code.google.com/p/ocrivist/source/browse/#svn%2Ftessintf where is C wrapper with Freepascal bindings

.Net:

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

Python:

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

Ruby:

• https://github.com/meh/ruby-tesseract-ocr/ - wrapper for tesseract 3.0x using the C++ API
• https://github.com/dannnylo/rtesseract

Clojure: https://github.com/antoniogarrote/clj-tesseract

Java: http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/ (JNA wrapper)

PHP: https://code.google.com/p/php-tesseract/

Objective-C: https://github.com/ldiqual/tesseract-ios

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:

• http://code.google.com/p/tesjeract (JNI wrapper)
• http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/ (JNA wrapper)