Project Title

tesseract — Open Source OCR Engine for Text Recognition

Overview

Tesseract is a powerful open-source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine developed in C++. It supports over 100 languages and can recognize text from various image formats. Tesseract stands out for its neural network-based OCR engine, which focuses on line recognition, and its ability to work with both legacy and modern OCR engines.

Key Features

Unicode (UTF-8) support for multilingual text recognition
Recognizes over 100 languages "out of the box"
Supports various image formats including PNG, JPEG, and TIFF
Outputs in multiple formats: plain text, hOCR (HTML), PDF, and more
Neural network-based OCR engine for improved accuracy

Use Cases

Document digitization: Converting physical documents to digital text
Accessibility: Making text in images readable for screen readers
Data extraction: Extracting text from images for analysis or storage
Language learning: Translating text in images for language study

Advantages

High accuracy with neural network-based OCR engine
Supports a wide range of languages and image formats
Open-source and actively maintained, with a large community of contributors
Can be trained to recognize additional languages and fonts

Limitations / Considerations

Requires high-quality images for optimal results
No GUI application included; requires command-line usage or integration into other software
Training new languages and fonts can be complex and time-consuming

Google's Vision API: A cloud-based OCR service that offers similar functionality but is proprietary and requires an internet connection.
ABBYY FineReader: A commercial OCR software with a user-friendly interface but lacks the flexibility and extensibility of Tesseract.
EasyOCR: A newer OCR library that offers a simpler interface and pre-trained models but may not have the same level of community support and language coverage as Tesseract.

Basic Information

GitHub: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
Stars: 68,959
License: Apache 2.0
Last Commit: 2025-08-20

📊 Project Information

Project Name: tesseract
GitHub URL: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
Programming Language: C++
⭐ Stars: 68,959
🍴 Forks: 10,135
📅 Created: 2014-08-12
🔄 Last Updated: 2025-08-20

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