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Luis Filipe Nassif commented on TIKA-93: ---------------------------------------- Hi [~tpalsulich], I think the option to configure tesseract path is very useful. For example, I can distribute tesseract binaries together with my app and do not need to change environment variables on the end user os. > OCR support > ----------- > > Key: TIKA-93 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-93 > Project: Tika > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: parser > Reporter: Jukka Zitting > Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 1.7 > > Attachments: TIKA-93.patch, TIKA-93.patch, TIKA-93.patch, > TIKA-93.patch, TesseractOCRParser.patch, TesseractOCRParser.patch, > TesseractOCR_Tyler.patch, TesseractOCR_Tyler_v2.patch, testOCR.docx, > testOCR.pdf, testOCR.pptx > > > I don't know of any decent open source pure Java OCR libraries, but there are > command line OCR tools like Tesseract > (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) that could be invoked by Tika to > extract text content (where available) from image files. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)