tesseract-ocr/tesseract

tesseract

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Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

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C++ · Apache-2.0 · Last push 2026-11-02

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Get the project

git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.git

Cloning downloads the source. For dependencies and installation, follow the project README.

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