When comparing Copyfish vs Tesseract, the Slant community recommends Tesseract for most people. In the question“What are the best OCR libraries?” Tesseract is ranked 1st while Copyfish is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Tesseract is:
A full list of languages can be found [here](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/langdata).
Specs
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Pros
Pro Scripting API
With the SeeShell scripting API you can access SeeShell’s web automation functionality from any programming language that supports COM. Whether using VBS, PowerShell, C#, Visual Basic, Python, Java or any other programming or scripting language that runs on Windows.
Pro Understands 40 languages
A full list of languages can be found here.
Pro Free, open source and cross-platform
Tesseract is licensed under the Apache with source code available on GitHub. It's available for free on Windows, Linux and OSX.
Pro Multiple front-ends available
Multiple GUIs have been developed for Tesseract, including OCRFeeder.
Pro Can work with custom training data
By inputting custom .traineddata files, Tesseract can adapt to different styles of text accurately.