tesseract-ocr / tesseract
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
Why this job: works in the areas we cover, but does not say which job it does
What it does
This package contains an OCR engine - libtesseract and a command line program - tesseract.
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit yesterday
- Stars
- 77,480
- +124 this week
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- 5.5.4
- Released 15 days ago
- Built with
- C++
- 96% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- Not stated
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 84% closed
- 433 still open
- Pull requests
- 1,504 merged
- 60 waiting
- Releases
- 37
- 3 in the last year
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- Security policy (opens in new tab)
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- C++ 96%
- CMake 1%
- Java 1%
- Makefile 1%
Topics
- tesseract
- tesseract-ocr
- ocr
- lstm
- machine-learning
- ocr-engine
- hacktoberfest
Project record
- JobOther AI tools
- StatusListed
- Commits6,809
- Forks10,911
- Watching1,706
- Stars in 28 days+553
- CreatedAug 12, 2014
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 12, 2026