Note that this is a text-only and possibly out-of-date version of the 
wiki ReadMe, which is located at:
 http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/ReadMe

Introduction
============
This package contains the Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine.
Orignally developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories Bristol and
at Hewlett Packard Co, Greeley Colorado, all the code
in this distribution is now licensed under the Apache License:

** Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
** you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
** You may obtain a copy of the License at
** http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
** Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
** distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
** WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
** See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
** limitations under the License.

Language specific data files can be found on:
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/list
You need at least one and put it to tessdata directory!

Windows build was done on Windows XP SP3 with VC++2008

Leptonica library (leptonlib.dll) is from 
http://leptonica.googlecode.com/files/leptonica-1.66-win32-lib-include-dirs.zip
Licence of Leptonica can be found on:
http://www.leptonica.com/about-the-license.html

Source code:
http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-3.00.tar.gz
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/source/checkout

If you have any question please read first:
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/w/list

or search in forum:
http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr/