Why is Tesseract so much more popular than Ocropus?

[maxim...@gmail.com]

Stupidly simple question, but I can't find any straightforward explanation online. The best guess I have is that it is because the research project in germany has now come to a close, but since Ocropus is much more recent and includes features like handwriting it is kind of surprising. Any and all insight or discussion welcome! I'd prefer to use ocropus if I can because I would like to use handwriting recognition and I understand it is more hackable.

PS. measuring popularity by frequency of discussion online.

[Philip Gwyn]

Ocropus is still very rough.  I just spent an afternoon installing the prereqs needed and still haven't managed to get any OCR output.