Kraken, the unknown Python OCR system
Kraken is a relatively unknown turn-key OCR system. However it has many benefits. In this article we discuss binarizing images for OCR'ing. »
Installing OpenCV with Tesseract text module on Ubuntu
This post shows how to install OpenCV on Ubuntu (14.04) with all text and Tesseract goodies. »
Installing OpenCV contrib on OSX
Make sure you installed Xcode, cmake and qt. »