Tesseract
Tesseract 4.1.1 reading an image.
Original authorsRay Smith, Hewlett-Packard1
DevelopersGoogle and others
Stable release5.5.22 / 26 December 2025
Written inC++
Operating systemLinux, Windows, and macOS
Available inInterface: English
Recognition: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Cherokee, Chinese, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Inuktitut, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish. Malayalam, Macedonian, Maltese, Malay, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Occitan, Oriya, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Syriac, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, West Frisian, Yiddish, Yoruba 3 (more can be added using included training files)4
TypeOptical character recognition
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitegithub.com/tesseract-ocr
Repository• github .com /tesseract-ocr /tesseract .git

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Footnotes

  1. “tesseract-ocr/tesseract: Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)”. GitHub. 2025. Retrieved 5 August 2025.

  2. tesseract-ocr. “Release 5.5.2 · tesseract-ocr/tesseract”. Retrieved 28 December 2025.

  3. “Languages supported in different versions of Tesseract”. Archived from the original on 8 August 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022.

  4. “Tesseract documentation – Traineddata files… – Language data files for Tesseract”. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022.