OCR

Function definition: Tools that support the generation of text from bitmap images, otherwise known as Optical Character Recognition

Lifecycle stage: Create or Receive (Acquire)

Tools for this function

Tool	Purpose
Docworks	Document digitization workflow software
GImageReader	A customisable GUI for Tesseract
Goobi	Workflow Management Tool
Kraken	Open Source turn-key OCR system forked from ocropus
Limb Processing	Software for processing, enhancing and converting cultural heritage into digital cultural heritage
NumaHOP	Platform for digitization projects management
Tesseract-ocr	Open source OCR engine, accepting uncompressed TIFF files as input