tesseract-ocr / tesseract
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Open-source OCR engine providing libtesseract and a command-line tool for extracting text from images.
Why you might care
A long-established, Apache-2.0 OCR engine with an LSTM neural recognizer, UTF-8 support, and 100+ languages out of the box. It outputs plain text, hOCR, PDF, TSV, ALTO and PAGE, and can be retrained for new languages. It ships no GUI, so it suits scripted pipelines and developers embedding OCR.
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LanguageC++
LicenseApache-2.0
Created2014-08-12 (12y ago)
Last push4d ago
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- GitHub: github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
- Homepage: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/
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