Tesseract is the long-standing open-source OCR engine, supporting over 100 languages and still the baseline for text extraction from images.
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tesseract has 75.4k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 10.7k times. tesseract is written mainly in C++. It has been in active development since 2014. tesseract is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are hacktoberfest, lstm, machine-learning, ocr.
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Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
Is tesseract open source?
tesseract is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.
Is tesseract free?
Yes. tesseract is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.
What license does tesseract use?
tesseract is available under the Apache-2.0 license.
What language is tesseract written in?
tesseract is written mainly in C++.
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