tesseract-ocr/tesseract

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

Language modelsC++#tesseract#tesseract-ocr#ocr#lstm#machine-learning

1.7 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 19, 2026.

About the project

Open-source OCR engine libtesseract and CLI tool tesseract for recognizing text in images. Supports 100+ languages, PNG/JPEG/TIFF input, and output in text, hOCR, PDF, TSV, ALTO.

Useful for

Convert a scanned document into a searchable PDF with a text layer
Extract text from screenshots or photos in one of 100+ languages
Embed libtesseract into your app via the C/C++ API or language wrappers

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

1 star so far today, about 7 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending C++ today: #11, +19 stars.

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Numbers

Total stars: 76,568
Stars in a day: 7
Forks: 10,806
Issues and pull requests: 4,546
Watchers: 1,715
Language: C++
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: 5.5.3 · July 24, 2026
Created: August 12, 2014
Last push: September 11, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

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September 19, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #11, +19 stars

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