Tesseract

Tesseract is the open-source OCR engine included with all versions of SimpleIndex.

FineReader OCR is enabled with an OCR or Professional License.

The current release includes version 3.04 of the Tesseract engine.

Tesseract provides adequate recognition speed and accuracy when dealing with good quality documents.

Text Output Formats with Tesseract:

Text (txt)
PDF (pdf)

Tesseract also supports some languages that are unsupported by FineReader and other commercial engines, for example Indian languages like Hindi and Tamil.

The Language Pack must be installed via the Global Settings Wizard in order to enable all languages.

The full list of Tesseract supported languages is below.

Afrikaans
Arabic
AzeriCyrillic
Belarusian
Bengali
Bulgarian
Catalan
Czech
ChineseSimplified
ChineseTraditional
Cherokee
Danish
German
Greek
English
EnglishMiddle
Esperanto
Estonian
Basque
Finnish
French
Frankish
FrenchMiddle
Galician
GreekAncient
Hebrew
Hindi
Croatian
Hungarian
Indonesian
Icelandic
Italian
ItalianOld
Japanese
Kannada
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malayalam
Macedonian
Maltese
MalayMalaysian
DutchStandard
NorwegianBokmal
Polish
PortugueseStandard
Romanian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
SpanishOld
Albanian
SerbianLatin
Swahili
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Tagalog
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese