Open-source OCR engine supporting multilingual text recognition and command-line use.
Tesseract OCR is an open-source optical character recognition engine that recognises text in images via the command line or a programming interface. It is often the underlying OCR engine in OCRmyPDF, batch image text recognition and document digitisation workflows.
Use cases: image text recognition, OCR for scanned literature, batch document processing, multilingual text recognition
Recommended combination: Tesseract OCR + OCRmyPDF / Python
