README.md

Tesseract OCR iOS

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Use Tesseract OCR in iOS 7.0+ projects written in either Objective-C or Swift. Easy and fast.

These are the current versions of the upstream bundled libraries within the framework that this repository provides:

• Tesseract 4.1.0 release (homepage)
• Leptonica 1.76.0 (homepage)
• Image libraries (Thx to ashtons and his [libtiff-ios] (https://github.com/ashtons/libtiff-ios) port):

• Libtiff 4.0.9 (homepage)
• Libpng 1.6.34 (homepage)
• Libjpeg 9a (homepage)

All libs are with bitcode integrated

Install

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Via Cocoapods

Add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'Tesseract-iOS', :git => 'https://github.com/NectGmbH/Tesseract-iOS.git', :tag => '4.1'

Run pod install

Via Carhage

Add the following line to your Cartfile (not tested):

github "NectGmbH/Tesseract-iOS"

Run carthage update

Known Limitations

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• No OS X support.
• Strict requirement on language files existing in a referenced "tessdata" folder.

Release Notes

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See the Releases page

License

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Tesseract OCR iOS and TesseractOCR.framework are distributed under the MIT license (see LICENSE.md).

Tesseract, maintained by Google (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/), is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license (see http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

Contributors

Nect GmbH Daniele Galiotto (founder) - iOS Freelance Developer - www.g8production.com

Kevin Conley - www.kevintechnology.com