Several years ago, we did a project attempting to develop methods to OCR bilingual dictionaries. We just used Tesseract, because we were trying to develop meth

Several years ago, we did a project attempting to develop methods to OCR bilingual dictionaries. We just used Tesseract, because we were trying to develop methods to put stuff into particular fields (headword, part of speech, translations etc.), not compare OCR methods. As you might guess, there were lots of problems. But what really surprised me was that it was completely inaccurate in detecting bold characters--whereas I could detect bolding while standing far enough away from an image that I couldn't make out individual characters. And bold detection was crucial for parsing out some of the fields. (A more recent version of Tesseract doesn't even try to detect bold, afaict.) We had another project later on aimed at simply detecting bold text, some success. But very little literature on this topic. Anyone know of OCR tools that do detect bolding?