leptonica

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  "why_use_this": "Leptonica is a low-level image I/O and transformation library commonly used by document scanning and OCR tools (especially Tesseract). If you\u0027re building image processing pipelines or OCR applications, you\u0027ll likely need it as a dependency; it handles JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and WebP natively."
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