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Tesseract OCR

Long-standing open-source OCR engine with an LSTM recogniser covering 100+ languages, run locally from the command line or API.

Tesseract OCR project
Local only
Free, open source

Official site · Source code

Where it ranks

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Documents & OCR
Parsers & APIs · Local · no rated model available here yet

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Facts

Vendor: Tesseract OCR project
Approach: Parsers & APIs
Where it runs: Runs only on your own hardware
Interface: Command line, API
Skill level: Advanced: command line, node graphs or self-hosting
Price: Free, open source
Pricing notes: Open source.
Source code: Open source (Apache-2.0)
GitHub stars: 77.1k (19 Oct 2026)
Last verified: 19 Oct 2026

Price from github.com, 19 Oct 2026.

Models it gives you

No models recorded yet.

Sources

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