History of the Tesseract OCR engine: what worked and what didn't
Ray Winfield Smith · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2013
This paper describes the development history of the Tesseract OCR engine, and compares the methods to general changes in the field over a similar time period. Emphasis is placed on the lessons learned with the goal of providing a primer for those interested in OCR research.