A .NET wrapper for tesseract-ocr.

Code License: Apache License 2.0
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Warning - Prerelease software (alpha)

This is currently prerelease software as such the public API is subject to change.

Getting started quickly

Note: Compiling the project requires at least MS Visual Studio 11 Express for Desktop or SharpDevelop 4.2.

1. Fork this project (see: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo)
2. Download language data files for tesseract 3.02 from http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
3. Build BaseApiTester project
4. Copy language files into BaseApiTester\bin\[config]\tessdata
5. Run BaseApiTester for example (work in progress)

To-do

Please help yourselves to one of the following tasks (or create a new one). Please leave a comment in the corresponding task to avoid duplication of work.

Task Num	Task	Status

| Tesseract - Core Apis 					| Active
| Tesseract - Regression test infrastructure			| Pending
| Leptonica - Scanned image preparation functions		| Pending
| Tesseract - API Cleanup and improvements			| Pending
| Tesseract - Create sample app					| Pending
| Tesseract - Dictionary lookup [not sure about this]		| Pending