thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php
A wrapper to work with Tesseract OCR inside PHP. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
61/100
- Activity 64
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
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: n/a
- age_days: 5260
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 218
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3040 stars · 554 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A PHP wrapper library around the Tesseract OCR command-line binary, providing a fluent API for extracting text from images. It supports multiple languages, character allowlists, and timeouts, and requires Tesseract 3.02+ installed separately.
Use cases
- extract text from images in php
- run tesseract ocr from php
- read text from scanned documents
- multilingual ocr in a php app
- recognize text in screenshots
- convert image to text with php
When to choose
- your project is in PHP and you need OCR
- you already have the Tesseract binary installed and want a clean PHP API
- you need multilingual text recognition with simple configuration
When to avoid
- you cannot install external binaries on your host
- you need a pure-PHP OCR engine with no system dependencies
- you need high-accuracy OCR on complex layouts better served by cloud OCR services
Facets
library · maturity stable
ocr image-processing cli computer-vision image-processing text-editors developer-tools php windows cross-platform tesseract text-recognition wrapper composer linux macos
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php · fetched 2026-08-28 · 74d789c2145d
- homepage: https://packagist.org/packages/thiagoalessio/tesseract_ocr · fetched 2026-08-29 · 347eef38184c
- site_page: https://packagist.org/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 29af46773a45
- site_page: https://packagist.org/packages/thiagoalessio/tesseract_ocr/stats · fetched 2026-08-29 · 36d39c07b9d7
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
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| thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php | main | 61 |
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