diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 44b9c888bc..1b32b9dc40 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # Tesseract OCR - + [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) -[![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/miah0ikfsf0j3819/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zdenop/tesseract/) +[![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/miah0ikfsf0j3819/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zdenop/tesseract/) [![Coverity Scan Build Status](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/tesseract-ocr/badge.svg)](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/tesseract-ocr) [![Insight.io](https://www.insight.io/repoBadge/github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)](https://insight.io/github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) @@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ This package contains an **OCR engine** - `libtesseract` and a **command line program** - `tesseract`. -The lead developer is Ray Smith. The maintainer is Zdenko Podobny. +The lead developer is Ray Smith. The maintainer is Zdenko Podobny. For a list of contributors see [AUTHORS](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/AUTHORS) and GitHub's log of [contributors](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/graphs/contributors). -Tesseract has **unicode (UTF-8) support**, and can **recognize more than 100 languages** "out of the box". +Tesseract has **unicode (UTF-8) support**, and can **recognize more than 100 languages** "out of the box". Tesseract supports **various output formats**: plain-text, hocr(html), pdf, tsv, invisible-text-only pdf. @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ You should note that in many cases, in order to get better OCR results, you'll n This project **does not include a GUI application**. If you need one, please see the [3rdParty](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/User-Projects-%E2%80%93-3rdParty) wiki page. -Tesseract **can be trained to recognize other languages**. See [Tesseract Training](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/TrainingTesseract) for more information. +Tesseract **can be trained to recognize other languages**. See [Tesseract Training](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/TrainingTesseract) for more information. ## Brief history @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ at Hewlett-Packard Co, Greeley Colorado between 1985 and 1994, with some more changes made in 1996 to port to Windows, and some C++izing in 1998. In 2005 Tesseract was open sourced by HP. Since 2006 it is developed by Google. -The latest stable version is **[3.05.01](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/3.05.01)**, released on June 1, 2017. Latest source code for 3.05 is available from [3.05 branch on github](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/tree/3.05). +The latest stable version is **[3.05.01](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/3.05.01)**, released on June 1, 2017. Latest source code for 3.05 is available from [3.05 branch on GitHub](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/tree/3.05). -Source code for the new **[LSTM based 4.00.00alpha version](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)** is available from the master branch on github. Please note this branch is under active development. +Source code for the new **[LSTM based 4.00.00alpha version](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)** is available from the master branch on GitHub. Please note this branch is under active development. See **[Release Notes](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/ReleaseNotes)** and **[Change Log](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/ChangeLog)** for more details of the releases. @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Basic **[command line usage](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Com tesseract imagename outputbase [-l lang] [--oem ocrenginemode] [--psm pagesegmode] [configfiles...] -For more information about the various command line options use `tesseract --help` or `man tesseract`. +For more information about the various command line options use `tesseract --help` or `man tesseract`. ## For developers @@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ Before you submit an issue, please review **[the guidelines for this repository] For support, first read the [Wiki](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki), particularly the [FAQ](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/FAQ) to see if your problem is addressed there. If not, search the [Tesseract user forum](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tesseract-ocr), the [Tesseract developer forum](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tesseract-dev) and [past issues](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues), and if you still can't find what you need, ask for support in the mailing-lists. Mailing-lists: -* [tesseract-ocr](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tesseract-ocr) - For tesseract users. -* [tesseract-dev](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tesseract-dev) - For tesseract developers. +* [tesseract-ocr](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tesseract-ocr) - For tesseract users. +* [tesseract-dev](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/tesseract-dev) - For tesseract developers. Please report an issue only for a **bug**, not for asking questions. @@ -94,6 +94,5 @@ Please report an issue only for a **bug**, not for asking questions. ## Latest Version of README For the latest online version of the README.md see: - + https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/README.md -