Life & fun · December 27, 2019
Extract text from images using Tesseract
Simple app to extract text from pictures using Tesseract - victorqribeiro/ocr
Extract text from images using Tesseract launched on December 27, 2019 with 14 votes, #737 of 2,946 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
This tool extracts text from images using Tesseract, an open-source optical character recognition engine. It's designed for anyone who needs to digitize text from pictures, scans, or screenshots. The software launched in late 2019 and is available on GitHub for developers and users looking for a reliable, free way to convert image-based text into editable, searchable format.
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