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= Tesseract release notes July 11 2015 - V3.04.01 =
* Added OSD renderer for psm 0. Works for single page and multi-page images.
* Improve tesstrain.sh script.
* Simplify build and run of ScrollView.
* Improved PDF output for OS X Preview utility.
* INCOMPATIBLE fix to hOCR line height information - commit 134ebc3.
* Added option to build Tesseract without Cube OCR engine (-DNO_CUBE_BUILD).
* Enable OpenMP support.
* Many bug fixes.

= Tesseract release notes July 11 2015 - V3.04.00 =
* Tesseract development is now done with Git and hosted at github.com (Previously we used Subversion as a VCS and code.google.com for hosting).
* Tesseract now requires leptonica 1.71 or a higher version.
* Removed official support for VS 2008.
* Added support for 39 additional scripts/languages, including: amh, asm, aze_cyrl, bod, bos, ceb, cym, dzo, fas, gle, guj, hat, iku, jav, kat, kat_old, kaz, khm, kir, kur, lao, lat, mar, mya, nep, ori, pan, pus, san, sin, srp_latn, syr, tgk, tir, uig, urd, uzb, uzb_cyrl, yid
* Major updates to training system as a result of extensive testing on 100 languages.
* New training data for over 100 languages
* Improved performance with PIC compilation option.
* Significant change to invisible font system in pdf output to improve correctness and compatibility with external programs, particularly ghostscript.
* Improved font identification.
* Major change to improve layout analysis for heavily diacritic languages: Thai, Vietnamese, Kannada, Telugu etc.
* Fixed problems with shifted baselines so recognition can recover from layout analysis errors.
* Major refactor to improve speed on difficult images, especially when running a heap checker.
* Moved params from global in page layout to tesseractclass.
* Improved single column layout analysis.
* Allow ocr output to multiple formats using tesseract command line executable.
* Fixed issues with mixed eng+ara scripts.
* Improved script consistency in numbers.
* Major refactor of control.cpp to enable line recognition.
* Added tesstrain.sh - a master training script.
* Added ability to text2image training tool to just list available fonts.
* Added ability to text2image to underline words.
* Improved efficiency of image processing for PDF output.
* Added parameter description for each parameter listed with 'print-parameters' command line option.
* Added font info to hOCR output.
* Enabled streaming input and output of multi-page documents.
* Many bug fixes.

= Tesseract release notes Feb 4 2014 - V3.03(rc1) =
* Added OpenCL support (experimental).
* Added new training tool text2image to generate box/tif file pairs from text and truetype fonts.
* Added support for PDF output with searchable text.
* Removed entire IMAGE class and all code in image directory.
* Tesseract executable: support for output to stdout; limited support for one page images from stdin (especially on Windows)
* Added Renderer to API to allow document-level processing and output of document formats, like hOCR, PDF.
* Major refactor of word-level recognition, beam search, eliminating dead code.
* Refactored classifier to make it easier to add new ones.
* Generalized feature extractor to allow feature extraction from greyscale.
* Improved sub/superscript treatment.
* Improved baseline fit.
* Added set_unicharset_properties to training tools.
* Many bug fixes.
* More training source data included.

= Tesseract release notes Feb 01 2012 - V3.02 =
* Added Right-to-left/Bidi capability in the output iterators for Hebrew/Arabic.
* Added paragraph detection in layout analysis/post OCR.

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