NEWS

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cpp11tesseract 5.3.3

• Tests that the installed Tesseract version is compatible with the C++ compiler (requested by Prof. Brian Ripley, CRAN).
• Adds Tesseract as a MacOS requirement and does not use autobrew to install it (i.e., to adhere to CRAN policies).

cpp11tesseract 5.3.2 (2024-10-22)

• Includes changes requested by CRAN (internal changes and reduced size images).

cpp11tesseract 5.3.0

• This is a fork of the original tesseract package made by Jeroen Ooms.
  • Differences:
    • Uses cpp11 instead of Rcpp.
    • Provides functions to download and use the slower but more accurate models.
    • Provides functions to download and use contributed models.
    • The documentation works offline.
    • Explicitly tests on Ubuntu with Tesseract 4 (Ubuntu 22.04 default) and Tesseract 5 (PPA).