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nguyenq/tess4j

Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API

Java

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621 commits

updated Jul 28, 2026

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README

Tess4J

Join the chat at https://gitter.im/nguyenq/tess4j

A Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

Tess4J is released and distributed under the Apache License, v2.0.

Features

The library provides optical character recognition (OCR) support for:

  • TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP image formats
  • Multi-page TIFF images
  • PDF document format

Dependencies

On Windows: Microsoft Visual C++ v14 Redistributable

Since Tesseract and Leptonica Windows binaries were built using Visual Studio 2026 (v145) Platform Toolset, please ensure you have Microsoft Visual C++ v14 Redistributable installed.

Tutorial

Development with Tess4J in NetBeans, Eclipse, and Command-line

Contributors

A big thanks to GitHub and all of Tess4J's contributors.

Project health

Overall

2.3/10

Maintained

5/10

Code review

0/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

Maven

net.sourceforge.tess4j:tess4j

Latest release

5.20.0 · Jul 27, 2026

Releases this year

4

Significant stargazers

Nicholas Jiang

430 followers · starred Nov 2022

tkroman

30 followers · starred Aug 2019

Him188

817 followers · starred Dec 2019

Geng Zhang

706 followers · starred Nov 2022

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nguyenq/tess4j

Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API

Java

1,758

621 commits

updated Jul 28, 2026

See the code

README

Tess4J

Join the chat at https://gitter.im/nguyenq/tess4j

A Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API.

Tess4J is released and distributed under the Apache License, v2.0.

Features

The library provides optical character recognition (OCR) support for:

  • TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP image formats
  • Multi-page TIFF images
  • PDF document format

Dependencies

On Windows: Microsoft Visual C++ v14 Redistributable

Since Tesseract and Leptonica Windows binaries were built using Visual Studio 2026 (v145) Platform Toolset, please ensure you have Microsoft Visual C++ v14 Redistributable installed.

Tutorial

Development with Tess4J in NetBeans, Eclipse, and Command-line

Contributors

A big thanks to GitHub and all of Tess4J's contributors.

Project health

Overall

2.3/10

Maintained

5/10

Code review

0/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

Maven

net.sourceforge.tess4j:tess4j

Latest release

5.20.0 · Jul 27, 2026

Releases this year

4

Significant stargazers

Nicholas Jiang

430 followers · starred Nov 2022

tkroman

30 followers · starred Aug 2019

Him188

817 followers · starred Dec 2019

Geng Zhang

706 followers · starred Nov 2022

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Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

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Sicos1977/TesseractOCR

A .net library to work with Google's Tesseract

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charlesw/tesseract

A .Net wrapper for tesseract-ocr

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Links to awesome OCR projects

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