Tesseract OCR Image Text Extraction

Extract text content from images based on Tesseract.js (the WebAssembly port of the Tesseract OCR engine).

Use Cases

Use when users need "image to text," "OCR recognition," "extract text from images," "screenshot character recognition," "scan to text," or "image text orientation detection."

Core Capabilities

• Recognize text from local images or image URLs
• Support for 100+ languages, with the ability to specify multiple languages simultaneously (e.g., ['eng', 'chi_sim'])
• Support for specifying recognition regions (--rectangle), character whitelists (--whitelist)
• Support for text orientation and script detection (--detect)
• Support for switching page segmentation modes (--psm) and OCR engine modes (--oem)
• Output formats: text (default), hocr, blocks (JSON), tsv

Limitations