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Tesseract supports various output formats: plain-text, hocr(html), pdf.

This project does not include a GUI application. If you need one, please see the [3rdParty](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/3rdParty) wiki page.

You should note that in many cases, in order to get better OCR results, you'll need to [improve the quality](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/ImproveQuality) of the image you are giving Tesseract.

The latest stable version is 3.04, released in July 2015.

#Brief history
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[Release Notes](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/ReleaseNotes)

#For developers

Developers can use `libtesseract` [C](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/api/capi.h) or [C++](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/api/baseapi.h) API to build their own application. If you need bindings to `libtesseract` for other programming languages, please see the [wrapper](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/AddOns#tesseract-wrappers) section on AddOns wiki page.

Documentation of Tesseract generated from source code by doxygen can be found on [tesseract-ocr.github.io](http://tesseract-ocr.github.io/).

#License

The code in this repository is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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tesseract imagename outputbase [-l lang] [-psm pagesegmode] [configfiles...]

To see the full usage use `tesseract --help`
For more information about the various command line options use `tesseract --help` or `man tesseract`.

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