> Tesseract is developed by Google since 2006, having been started at HP in 1985 and open-sourced by HP in 2005. Fun fact: it actually started as a US national

> Tesseract is developed by Google since 2006, having been started at HP in 1985 and open-sourced by HP in 2005. Fun fact: it actually started as a US national defence initiative in the last big AI hype bubble in the 1980s. While it isn't in the wiki, probably for intellectual property reasons, I'm almost positive Cuneiform originated as the Soviet version of the same thing (I have evidence in notebooks somewhere): OCR was something needed for "AI" of the 1980s in the Soviet system as well. Had it been further developed by Microsoft ... or Apple, in contrast to Tesseract, it would have continued to be the official OCR of an opposing world-historical system.