[Package Issue]: tesseract-ocr.tesseract / UB-Mannheim.TesseractOCR (Possible duplicate?)

[DandelionSprout]

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• I have searched for my issue and not found a work-in-progress/duplicate/resolved issue.
• I have not been informed if the issue is resolved in a preview version of the winget client.

Category of the issue

Other

Brief description of your issue

tesseract-ocr.tesseract and UB-Mannheim.TesseractOCR seem to be the same program (Having the same package name and all), and both have had a version 5.4.0.20240606 at some point.

The only difference I can find in a real hurry, besides the different InstallerUrl hosting sites, is that tesseract-ocr.(...) received one additional update later on that UB-Mannheim.(...) didn't.

I will however let you guys make the final calls on it.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open PowerShell 7.5.4 in Windows Terminal.
2. Run winget search "Tesseract-OCR - open source OCR engine"
3. See that there's 2 very similarly looking results.

Actual behavior

There's a lack of obvious telltales on whether they are different softwares or if they are the same program.

Expected behavior

Either:

1. The lower-version package among the two (UB-Mannheim.TesseractOCR) gets deleted.
2. Someone would attest to if the two packages work differently in any way.

Environment

Windows Package Manager v1.12.350
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.26200.7171
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.27.350.0

Winget Directories
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Logs                               %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir
User Settings                      %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json
Portable Links Directory (User)    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links
Portable Links Directory (Machine) C:\Program Files\WinGet\Links
Portable Package Root (User)       %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root              C:\Program Files\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root (x86)        C:\Program Files (x86)\WinGet\Packages
Installer Downloads                %USERPROFILE%\Downloads
Configuration Modules              %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Configuration\Modules

Links
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License Agreement   https://aka.ms/winget-license
Third Party Notices https://aka.ms/winget-3rdPartyNotice
Homepage            https://aka.ms/winget
Windows Store Terms https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/storedocs/terms-of-sale

Admin Setting                             State
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LocalManifestFiles                        Enabled
BypassCertificatePinningForMicrosoftStore Disabled
InstallerHashOverride                     Enabled
LocalArchiveMalwareScanOverride           Disabled
ProxyCommandLineOptions                   Disabled
DefaultProxy                              Disable

Screenshots and Logs

[evilbananas]

Issue #224115 gives some insight into this.

The latest version of UB-Mannheim.TesseractOCR is v5.4.0.20240606. This version is an unofficial installer created by the team at the University Library of Mannheim. However, it seems that the Tesseract team now offers an official installer, according to the link you provided. Consequently, we should add it as a new package, probably something like TesseractOCR.Official.