Tesseract is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system, among the best ones. OCR software is capable to understand text from images and scanned documents (including handwriting if you train it). An OCR system can be useful for a lot of tasks like word counting scanned documents, automatic transcription, characters conversion from image to text and more.
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