Tesseract OCR - AI Image Tools Tool
Overview
Tesseract OCR is an open-source optical character recognition engine that extracts text from images. It supports over 100 languages, common image formats (PNG, JPEG, TIFF), and offers both an LSTM-based engine and a legacy character-pattern recognition mode.
Key Features
- Open-source optical character recognition engine
- Recognizes text from images
- Supports over 100 languages
- Accepts PNG, JPEG, and TIFF image formats
- Provides an LSTM-based modern OCR engine
- Includes a legacy mode for character-pattern recognition
Ideal Use Cases
- Digitize scanned documents into editable text
- Convert photos of printed text into searchable content
- Extract multi-language text from images
- Produce text input for NLP and text-mining workflows
- Integrate OCR into batch image-processing pipelines
Getting Started
- Visit the project's GitHub repository for source and documentation
- Clone the repository or download release artifacts
- Follow the build and installation instructions in the repository
- Prepare input images in PNG, JPEG, or TIFF formats
- Run the OCR engine with desired language models and output options
- Review extracted text and integrate outputs into downstream workflows
Pricing
Open-source; no official pricing disclosed.
Key Information
- Category: Image Tools
- Type: AI Image Tools Tool