diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0b247613f0..b80ac28c07 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ languages "out of the box". It can be trained to recognize other languages. See 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 @@ -26,6 +30,12 @@ In 2005 Tesseract was open sourced by HP. Since 2006 it is developed by Google. [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"); @@ -52,7 +62,7 @@ Basic command line usage: 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`. #Support