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Gautam Gupta's personal blog at gaut.am covers programming and design. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Making A Simple OCR Android App Using Tesseract”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

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Why HN links it

Linked as a how-to for getting Tesseract OCR running in an Android app. One commenter values it as a practical walkthrough for that setup.

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  1. Making A Simple OCR Android App Using Tesseract
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. loisaidasam · 2015-06-25Recommends
    Dunno about desktop, but as far as Android is concerned, tess-two is a fork of Tesseract tools for Android: https://github.com/rmtheis/tess-two This dude did a pretty nice writeup on getting it going: http://gaut.am/making-an-ocr-android-app-using-tesseract/

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    on “Ask HN: Open source OCR library?”
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