Tesseract OCR

7.9easy start · #3 of 40
in OCR software

Runs on Linux, Windows, Mac, Android.

Tesseract OCR is ranked #3 of 40 in OCR software on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, Android.

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Open-source license: The repository code is licensed under Apache License 2.0.
Neural OCR engine: Tesseract 4 added an LSTM-based neural network OCR engine focused on line recognition.
Legacy engine: Tesseract 3 compatibility is available through Legacy OCR Engine mode.
Image inputs: Supported image formats include PNG, JPEG, and TIFF.
Developer API: Developers can use the libtesseract C or C++ API to build applications.
Language bindings: Bindings for other programming languages are available through the wrapper documentation.
Stable version: Major version 5 is described as the current stable version.
Project history: It was open sourced by HP in 2005 and developed by Google from 2006 to August 2017.
Lead developer: Stefan Weil is identified as the current lead developer.
Image quality limit: Better OCR results may require improving the quality of the input image.
Image library dependency: Tesseract uses Leptonica to open input images.
Founded: 1985

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