Tesseract OCR iOS is a Framework for iOS7+, compiled also for armv7s and arm64.
# Tesseract OCR iOS
**Use Tesseract OCR in iOS 9.0+ projects written in either Objective-C or Swift.
Easy and fast.**
These are the current versions of the upstream bundled libraries within the framework that this repository provides:
* Tesseract 3.03-rc1 ([homepage](https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/))
* Leptonica 1.72 ([homepage](http://leptonica.org/))
* Image libraries (Thx to ashtons and his [libtiff-ios](https://github.com/ashtons/libtiff-ios) port):
- Libtiff 4.0.4 ([homepage](http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/))
- Libpng 1.6.18 ([homepage](http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html))
- Libjpeg 9a ([homepage](http://libjpeg.sourceforge.net/))
**All libs are with bitcode integrated**
## Install
### Carthage
Add the following line to your Cartfile:
```
github "gali8/Tesseract-OCR-iOS"
```
Run `carthage update`
*Please note this is a fork, hopefully the url will change later *
## Known Limitations
- macOS support using ([https://github.com/hamchapman/Tesseract-OCR-iOS/tree/macos-support](https://github.com/hamchapman/Tesseract-OCR-iOS/tree/macos-support))
- Strict requirement on language files existing in a referenced "tessdata" folder.
## Release Notes
### 3.1.1 and greater
See the [Releases](https://github.com/gali8/Tesseract-OCR-iOS/releases) page
### Older releases
See the [Release Notes wiki page](https://github.com/gali8/Tesseract-OCR-iOS/wiki/Release-Notes)
## License
Tesseract OCR iOS and TesseractOCR.framework are distributed under the MIT
license (see LICENSE.md).
Tesseract, maintained by Google (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/), is
distributed under the Apache 2.0 license (see
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
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## Contributors
Daniele Galiotto (founder) - Co-Founder at Nexor Technology srl -
**[www.nexor.it](http://www.nexor.it)**
Kevin Conley - **[www.kevintechnology.com](http://www.kevintechnology.com)**
Eduardo Irias - **[estamp.co](http://estamp.co)**
Hamilton Che hapman -