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GitHub

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

License history

LICENSE file

Apache 2.0 No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2014.

Latest release

No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).

About and history
Repository
tesseract-ocr/tesseract · created Aug 12, 2014
Website
tesseract-ocr.github.io
Language
C++
Foundation
None; run by its maintainers
GitHub detects
Apache-2.0
Stars per week
122 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 2, 202677,401
Oct 26, 202677,191
Oct 12, 202677,053
Oct 5, 202676,884
Sep 21, 202676,671

Changes

Stars per weekNov 7, 2026

Gains about 122 stars a week, up from 104.

Stars per weekOct 27, 2026

Gains about 104 stars a week, down from 127.

Stars per weekOct 18, 2026

Gains about 127 stars a week, up from 107.

Stars per weekOct 9, 2026

Gains about 107 stars a week.

TrackedSep 25, 2026

Now tracked, from tesseract-ocr/tesseract on GitHub.