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Ocropy OCR – good results for Gothic/Fraktur Typeface

Ocropy (also called ocropus) is not a standalone program for text recognition: it consists of several command line modules for

  • binarization (creates a binary raster graphic)
  • segmentation (splitting documents into lines)
  • optical character recognition (OCR)
  • controlling the recognised text and
  • training new character sets.

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