otiai10/gosseract
Go package for OCR (Optical Character Recognition), by using Tesseract C++ library observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
51/100
- Activity 62
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4709
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 229
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3130 stars · 306 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
gosseract is a Go package that provides OCR (Optical Character Recognition) by binding to the Tesseract C++ library via cgo. It lets Go applications extract text from images with a simple client API.
Use cases
- extract text from images in go
- run ocr on scanned documents
- read text from png screenshots
- build a go service that does ocr with tesseract
- convert image-based pdfs to text
When to choose
- you are writing a Go application and need OCR via Tesseract
- you want a thin, well-maintained Go binding to libtesseract
- you need cross-platform OCR support including Linux, macOS, and Windows
When to avoid
- you want a pure-Go OCR implementation without cgo or native Tesseract dependencies
- you need a ready-made OCR HTTP server rather than a library (use ocrserver instead)
- you need modern deep-learning-based OCR accuracy beyond what Tesseract provides
Facets
library · maturity active
ocr image-processing computer-vision image-processing developer-tools windows go tesseract cgo text-extraction leptonica linux macos docker
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/otiai10/gosseract · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1d7ff6e5dd0e
- homepage: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/otiai10/gosseract · fetched 2026-08-29 · 11b0ebe61e96
- site_page: https://pkg.go.dev/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 757852027879
- site_page: https://go.dev/project · fetched 2026-08-29 · d5ca00bb378b
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| otiai10/gosseract | main | 51 |
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