Integrating Bangla script recognition support in tesseract OCR

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2009
Publisher
BRAC University
Author
Hasnat, Md. Abul
Chowdhury, Muttakinur Rahman
Khan, Mumit
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http://hdl.handle.net/10361/635
Abstract
Tesseract is considered one of the most accurate free software OCR engines currently available. It was originally developed by Hewlett-Packard from 1985 until 1995, and is currently maintained by Google. At present, Tesseract is capable of only recognizing English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch. However, it is possible to make Tesseract recognize other scripts if the engine is trained with the requisite data. In this paper, we present a complete methodology to integrate Bangla script recognition support in Tesseract.
Keywords
Optical character reader (OCR); Bangla language processing
 
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Includes bibliographical references (page 5).
Department
Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing (CRBLP), BRAC University
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