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id: pytesseract
version: "0.3.13"
license: Apache License 2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# pytesseract — Python-tesseract is a python wrapper for Google's Tesseract-OCR

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install pytesseract
uv add pytesseract
poetry add pytesseract

## Description

Python Tesseract
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Python-tesseract is an optical character recognition (OCR) tool for python.
That is, it will recognize and "read" the text embedded in...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

pytesseract is a Python wrapper for Google's Tesseract-OCR engine that extracts text from images and generates structured output like bounding boxes, confidence scores, and searchable PDFs.

Verdict: pytesseract is a well-maintained, actively developed OCR wrapper with low dependency friction and permissive licensing. No known vulnerabilities. Primary blocker is the external Tesseract system dependency, not the Python package itself.

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