Overview
Open-source OCR engine sponsored by Google, supporting 100+ languages.
Details
Tesseract is the most popular open-source OCR engine, originally developed at HP Labs and now sponsored by Google. It supports more than 100 languages, can be run locally or embedded in applications, and integrates with many image processing pipelines. Tesseract is widely used by developers as a free OCR alternative and forms the basis for many commercial OCR products.