 In a July 2007 article on Tesseract, Anthony Kay of "Linux Journal" termed it "a quirky command-line tool that does an outstanding job".At that time he noted "Tesseract is a bare-bones OCR engine.The build process is a little quirky, and the engine needs some additional features (such as layout detection), but the core feature, text recognition, is drastically better than anything else I've tried from the Open Source community.