Tesseract trained to better detect historical texts

[Subhashish]

HI all,

My name is Subhashish and I am a native speaker of the Odia (Oriya) language. I've started training Tesseract on Chapakala 19, a typeface revival of the widely used 19th-century letterpress font.

Here is the PR for the 100K run: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_contrib/pull/13

More details about the process and results: https://github.com/ofdn/tessdata_contrib/tree/main/ori_hist

Chapakala 19: https://github.com/ofdn/Chapakala/tree/main/19

Subhashish