External tools, wrappers and training projects for Tesseract

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External tools, wrappers and training projects for Tesseract

Tesseract box editors and training tools

Platform support depends on used language and experience of user.

For Tesseract version 4 and up

Box file editors

jTessBoxEditor

For Tesseract 3.0x

Box file editors

Name	Last update	Language	Multipage support
jTessBoxEditor	2023	Java	yes
QT Box Editor	2019	C++, Qt4/Qt5	yes
tesseract-box-editor	2013	.NET 4	yes
Tesseract-OCR boxfile AJAX editor	2012	online tool
cowboxer	2012	C++, Qt4	no
moshPyTT	2011	Python, GTK2	no
pytesseracttrainer	2011	Python, GTK2	no

For Tesseract-OCR 2.0x

Box file editors

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

Other Training Tools

jTessBoxEditor - Box Editor and Training Tool
MzTesseract - MS Windows program that can train new language 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 generates image and box file based on text input
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
boxedit - A web-based editor for Tesseract box files
TrainYourTesseract - Free online "no-hassle" TTF file to trainedata converter

Community training projects

Tesseract-MICR-OCR: https://github.com/BigPino67/Tesseract-MICR-OCR
MRZ: https://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr/attach/10d7c711c9cc80/mrz.traineddata
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
Indic: http://code.google.com/p/tesseractindic/, https://github.com/debayan/Tesseract-Indic-OCR/, http://code.google.com/p/parichit/ (All are Obsolete)
Indic-OCR http://indic-ocr.github.io/tessdata/
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
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

Ports

Project Naptha
tesseract.js-core - Emscripten port of Tesseract C++ API
tesseract.js - Pure JavaScript OCR

Tesseract wrappers

Tesseract 4.0x

Java

tess4j - JNA wrapper. Docs and discussions - http://tess4j.sourceforge.net/
bytedeco - Java configuration and interface classes for Tesseract based on the JavaCPP-Presets library from https://bytedeco.org

Python

tesserocr - A Python wrapper around Tesseract's C++ API
pytesseract - a wrapper class for Tesseract OCR (requires tesseract executable)
tesseract-ocr-wrapper - a python wrapper for tesseract-ocr with support for OCRing of pdf
aiopytesseract - asyncio tesseract wrapper for Tesseract-OCR.
image2text - A python wrapper for tesseract to work on large datasets and directories.

Objective-C

Tesseract-macOS

Swift

swiftytesseract Swift wrapper

Flutter

tesseract_ocr Flutter plugin

tesseract Bindings to the C++ API for the R programming language

Ruby

rtesseract wrapper gem for Tesseract OCR (requires tesseract executable)

Rust

rusty-tesseract a wrapper class for Tesseract OCR (requires tesseract executable; based on pytesseract)

Elixir

tesseract-ocr-elixir

Crystal

tesseract-ocr-crystal

Tesseract 3.0x

Tesseract versions 3.02 and up include C API

.Net

charlesw/tesseract - project offers also tesseract-ocr 64bit Windows library

Python

tesserocr - A Python wrapper around Tesseract's C++ API
pyocr - A Python wrapper for Tesseract (and Cuneiform)
tesserwrap - Python bindings to the Tesseract API
tesseract-sip - A python SIP wrapper for libtesseract (Apache license)
pytesseract - a wrapper class for Tesseract OCR (requires tesseract executable)
python-tesseract - A wrapper class for Tesseract OCR that allows any conventional image files (SWIG based)
http://code.google.com/p/pytess/ - A simple SWIG-based interface to Tesseract
aiopytesseract - asyncio tesseract wrapper for Tesseract-OCR.