[spaznode]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract "In geometry, the tesseract, also called an 8-cell or regular octachoron or cubic prism, is the four-dimensional analog of the cube. The tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square. Just as the surface of the cube consists of 6 square faces, the hypersurface of the tesseract consists of 8 cubical cells."

Looks like the perfect name to me. Sounds like the "other" project already has an established name of "tesseract ocr", don't see any reason why this library would be confused with that. Lame for people to focus on this instead of the crazy beautiful api that comes with this thing:

https://github.com/square/tesseract/wiki/API-Reference

[ma2rten]

If you were going to make a software, where you can see places though a webcam, would you call it Windows, even if it's a fitting name?

Tesseract goes by the name Tesseract, tesseract-ocr is just the name of the Google code project.

[spaznode]

If we're going to talk about time, let's not forget a book I read as a child - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wrinkle_in_Time. I believe they win the "who used tesseract first" award. At least as far as this thread is concerned for now.

To be honest though, my view is very biased because I don't care about the ocr project at all. I'm sure it's a very nice project, but hardly a tesseract really.. =p