There are some interesting approaches using tesseract with GNU Parallel described in the answers here [1]. If linux or os/x is not an easy option, some folks use Parallel in windows via Cygwin [2].
art --- 1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4962978/is-tesseract-3-00-multi-threaded 2. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hpctrekker/archive/2013/03/30/preparing-and-uploading-datasets-for-hdinsight.aspx From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Worldprogram Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 2:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [tesseract-ocr] Is there any way to speed up extraction using tesseract OCR Engine, while tiff file is having 600-700 pages? During processing of tiff files, which are having 600 - 700 pages from Tesseract OCR engine with hocr option, we monitored that files are taking around 40 - 50 minutes. We monitored that it is so much time for processing large files. Do we have any way to speed up the process? Following command is using: - <Drive>:\Tesseract-OCR>tesseract.exe "Source_Tiff_File" "Destination_File" hocr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/dde0beb4-1638-4b6b-b6d9-355ae82d769d%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/dde0beb4-1638-4b6b-b6d9-355ae82d769d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/BY2PR11MB0743F2EA18FFB0368CF350B9DCD40%40BY2PR11MB0743.namprd11.prod.outlook.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

