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Welcome to the tesstrain wiki!

tesstrain (formerly ocrd-train) is a collection of scripts and documentation for training of Tesseract with LSTM (supported by Tesseract 4 and newer releases).

Currently it includes a Makefile which allows training from real line images with ground truth (text transcriptions). Such data is available from a number of sources, see https://github.com/cneud/ocr-gt for a list.

Training from synthetic images is supported by training scripts (Shell, Python) which are still part of the Tesseract code base.

Examples

• Training Fraktur with Austrian Newspapers
• Training Fraktur with GT4HistOCR
• Training Fraktur and Handwriting with German primers
• Training Handwritten Text with German Konzilsprotokolle