Is there a guide to using tesseract? When I last used it, I had trouble accurately recovering text from an image I just created with Times New Roman. There are probably some settings I'd need to change to get it to work properly.
Not sure. I looked at it years ago, during its early open source stages, and similarly concluded that it was nontrivial to get going. Should be easier now. IIRC in those days it had a very high volume mailing list for user support.