tesseract-ocr

tesseract

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

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hacktoberfest lstm machine-learning ocr ocr-engine tesseract tesseract-ocr

Created 12 Aug 2014Last push 25 Aug 2026

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Tesseract: Free OCR That Reads Hindi Documents

3 things to get right when pulling text out of scanned Indian paperwork — the language pack, the scan quality, and when a free tool beats a paid one. Apache-2.0, no per-page fee.

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