sirfz/tesserocr
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A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API observed · 2026-09-29
Health v2 · maintenance only
87/100
- Activity 88
- Release rhythm 77
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 68
- age_days: 3960
- days_rel: 77
- days_push: 77
- n_releases_24m: 6
Adoption not part of the score
2173 stars · 260 forks observed · 2026-09-29
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A Python wrapper around the tesseract-ocr C++ API built with Cython for optical character recognition. It is Pillow-friendly, works with image files, and releases the GIL during processing to enable real concurrency with Python threads.
Use cases
- extract text from images in python
- run ocr on scanned pdf pages
- recognize text in pillow images
- perform multithreaded ocr in python
- wrap tesseract without shelling out to the CLI
When to choose
- you want fast, direct API access to tesseract from Python instead of subprocess calls
- you need concurrent OCR with real parallelism via threading
- your images are already loaded as Pillow Image objects
When to avoid
- you cannot install native libtesseract/libleptonica dependencies
- you need a pure-Python OCR solution
- you need OCR engines beyond tesseract
Facets
library · maturity active
ocr image-processing computer-vision image-processing files windows python tesseract cython pillow text-extraction linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr · fetched 2026-09-29 · e8a0e1181454
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/tesserocr/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2efeb463eb8c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| sirfz/tesserocr | main | 87 |
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