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nguyenq/tess4j

Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/nguyenq/tess4j · Java · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

91/100

  • Activity 94
  • Release rhythm 83
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 87.0
  • age_days: 4452
  • days_rel: 37
  • days_push: 36
  • n_releases_24m: 7

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1757 stars · 379 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Tess4J is a Java JNA wrapper for the Tesseract OCR API, enabling optical character recognition in Java applications. It supports TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP images, multi-page TIFFs, and PDF documents.

Use cases

  • extract text from scanned images in java
  • ocr pdf documents programmatically
  • read text from png or jpeg files
  • convert multi-page tiff to searchable text
  • add ocr capability to a java application
  • digitize scanned documents

When to choose

  • you need OCR from Java/JVM code
  • you want Tesseract capabilities without shelling out to the CLI
  • you need to process images or PDFs for text extraction

When to avoid

  • you need OCR in non-JVM languages (use Tesseract directly)
  • you need state-of-the-art accuracy on handwriting or complex layouts
  • you want a pure-Java solution without native dependencies

Facets

library · maturity stable

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