<h3>Tesseract (software)</h3>
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Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. It is free software, released under the Apache License. Originally developed by Hewlett-Packard as proprietary software in the 1980s, it was released as open source in 2005 and development has been sponsored by Google since 2006.<br />
In 2006, Tesseract was considered one of the most accurate open-source OCR engines then available.
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$ tesseract -l eng english-page.jpg english
$ tesseract -l nld dutch-page.jpg dutch
$ ls
dutch.txt english.txt 
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