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Update tesseract man page about both OCR engines in tesseract 4
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Shreeshrii committed Oct 4, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by
UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005, and has been developed
at Google since then.

Tesseract 4 adds a new neural net (LSTM) based OCR engine which is focused
on line recognition, but also still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine of
Tesseract 3 which works by recognizing character patterns. Compatibility with
Tesseract 3 is enabled by --oem 0. It also needs traineddata files which support
the legacy engine, for example those from the tessdata repository.


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