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Tesseract
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Last discussed Nov 11, 2026
An open-source optical character recognition (OCR) engine that can extract text from images.
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Simon Willison
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"I'd also written some code that used Tesseract, which is an OCR library that can run in your browser and do actually really good OCR all in JavaScript."
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Riley Brown
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"You can use Tesseract. All of these are really useful tools, but none of these are better than the other."
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