Tesseract

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

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A solid, actively developed project. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-08-24, not from hands-on testing.

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository). The project is written primarily in C++, released under Apache-2.0, and has 76,163 stars and 10,769 forks on GitHub. 240 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-08-22. The latest tagged release is 5.5.3 (2026-07-24). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-24 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.

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76.2kStars

10.8kForks

1.7kWatching

240Contributors

488Open issues

Licence: Apache-2.0
Language: C++
Last push: 2026-08-22

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Releases

5.5.3 2026-07-24 5.5.3
5.5.2 2025-12-26 5.5.2
5.5.1 2025-05-25 5.5.1
5.5.0 2024-11-10 5.5.0
5.4.1 2024-06-11 5.4.1
5.4.0 2024-06-06 5.4.0

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