8 alternatives to tesseract

tesseract-ocr/tesseract — Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository) (77,302 stars, Apache-2.0, ai, testing, files).

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The alternatives in detail

• otiai10/gosseract
  Go package for OCR (Optical Character Recognition), by using Tesseract C++ library
  score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 3,140 stars · 5 components · search them
• naptha/tesseract.js
  Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥
  score 7.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 38,798 stars · 20 components · search them · alternatives
• bhimrazy/receipt-ocr
  An efficient OCR engine for receipt image processing.
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 753 stars · 10 components · search them
• thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php
  A wrapper to work with Tesseract OCR inside PHP.
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 3,042 stars · 5 components · search them
• nguyenq/tess4j
  Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API
  score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,755 stars · 20 components · search them
• robertknight/ocrs
  Rust library and CLI tool for OCR (extracting text from images)
  score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,912 stars · 21 components · search them
• robertknight/tesseract-wasm
  JS/WebAssembly build of the Tesseract OCR engine for use in browsers and Node
  score 4.6/10 · BSD-2-Clause permissive · 388 stars · 8 components · search them
• hoangsonww/ai-ml-classifiers
  🤖 This repository houses a collection of image classification models for various purposes, including vehicle, object, animal, and flower classification. Each classifier is built using deep learning techniques and pre-tra
  score 1.1/10 · MIT permissive · 28 stars · 47 components · search them

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