From 7f5345d2078c77604503fc1c8b9da4c8245efdf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amit D Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:14:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md 'Promote' @stweil ... :-) --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e219408b3a..6c1518f69c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ This package contains an **OCR engine** - `libtesseract` and a **command line pr 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 using the Legacy OCR Engine mode (--oem 0). It also needs [traineddata](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Data-Files.html) files which support the legacy engine, for example those from the [tessdata](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata) repository. -The lead developer is Ray Smith. The maintainer is Zdenko Podobny. For a list of contributors see [AUTHORS](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/main/AUTHORS) +Stefan Weil is the current lead developer. Ray Smith was the lead developer until 2018. The maintainer is Zdenko Podobny. For a list of contributors see [AUTHORS](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/main/AUTHORS) and GitHub's log of [contributors](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/graphs/contributors). Tesseract has **unicode (UTF-8) support**, and can **recognize more than 100 languages** "out of the box".