Take the 2-minute tour ×  I am interested in using OCR to
recognize text from a document that doesn't contain words.
Rather, it is a document with a long string of "random" printed
characters. I have been trying to use tesseract to scan the
text, but it seems to be looking for words. Is there a way to
tell tesseract to just do plain character recognition?
share|improve this question I have updated the question to fix
the complaint. –  Daniel Aug 28 '13 at 15:33 The old Presto!
PageManager that came with the scanner, did not do spellchecking
by default (windows), it has spell checker but post OCR. I
wonder if you can dissapear the dictionary on any software doing
auto correction, it could not do it then. The OCR is not by
default looking at whole words, except mabey for alignment. – 
Psycogeek Aug 28 '13 at 17:04 @Daniel - Now its a question that
can actually be answered. –  Ramhound Aug 28 '13 at 17:08  1
Answer 1  up vote 1 down vote accepted  Yes, you can disable the
dictionaries by defining a configuratio