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