# gali8/Tesseract-OCR-iOS

Tesseract OCR iOS is a Framework for iOS7+, compiled also for armv7s and arm64.

Repository: https://github.com/gali8/Tesseract-OCR-iOS
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tesseract-ocr-ios
Homepage: http://www.nexor.it
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2021-05-03T20:04:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4873, "days_push": 1948, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4221, forks 934 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:39.304768+00:00)

## What it is
An iOS framework wrapping the Tesseract OCR engine (with Leptonica and image libraries) for use in Objective-C or Swift apps on iOS 9.0+. It bundles precompiled libraries with bitcode support and is distributed via CocoaPods and Carthage.

## Use cases
- recognize text in images inside an iOS app
- scan receipts or documents with the camera and extract text
- add OCR to an Objective-C or Swift project
- read text from photos offline on iPhone or iPad
- extract strings from screenshots programmatically

## When to choose
- you need on-device OCR in an iOS app without server calls
- you want a precompiled Tesseract build for armv7s/arm64 with bitcode
- your project supports iOS 9+ and uses CocoaPods or Carthage

## When to avoid
- you need macOS support without a separate fork
- you need the latest Tesseract features or accuracy improvements, since it bundles Tesseract 3.03-rc1
- you need actively maintained software with frequent updates
- you target platforms other than iOS

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ocr, image-processing, sdk
- domain: computer-vision, image-processing, mobile-development, cross-platform
- platform: cpp
- tags: tesseract, objective-c, cocoapods, carthage, text-recognition, ios-framework, ios, mobile, swift

## Member repositories
- gali8/Tesseract-OCR-iOS (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:39.304768+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:22:24.194550+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gali8/Tesseract-OCR-iOS (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:39.304768+00:00, sha 934031c7e21f)
  - homepage: http://www.nexor.it (fetched 2026-08-29T09:12:35.269701+00:00, sha c0cefef9aa48)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.