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Frequently Asked Questions

A collection of frequently asked questions and the answers, or pointers to them for Tesseract 4.0.0.

For the older version of the FAQ pertaining to Tesseract 2.0x, 3.0x and 4.00.00alpha, please see FAQ Old.

If you have a question, please post it to the users mailing-list/forum.

If you think you found a bug in Tesseract, please search existing issues. If you find an existing similar issue, please add to it, otherwise create a new issue.

You must read the CONTRIBUTING guide before you report an issue in GitHub or ask a question in the forum.

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(Please note, this page is currently being updated for 4.0.0).

My question isn't in here!

Try searching the forum: http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr as well as open and closed issues on GitHub: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues, as your question may have come up before even if it is not listed here.

As of 02/02/2020


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All pages were moved to tesseract-ocr/tessdoc.

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