tesseract

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  "one_liner": "OCR engine that converts scanned images and PDFs into searchable text via command-line or library API.",
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  "why_use_this": "Tesseract is the gold-standard open-source OCR tool, supporting 100+ languages and delivering high accuracy on both modern and historical documents. Use it to batch-process document archives, build text-extraction pipelines, or embed OCR into your application; it\u0027s language-agnostic and trainable on custom fonts."
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