ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF

OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

35k stars · 2.4k forks · Python

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 96% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 73
Human commits, 90 days: 158
Human commits, 365 days: 494
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 6%
Last commit: Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
Last human commit: Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 7
Last release: Sep 28, 2026 (16 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 5 days

Responsiveness: of 16 recent issues, 75% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 2 days.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 469 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 120

Top committers

jbarlow83: 96% of commits
claude: 1% of commits
Anai-Guo: 0% of commits
linhongyu510: 0% of commits
BetterAndBetterII: 0% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Aug 6, 2019 to Aug 6, 2019: about 26 more stars than usual, peak 28 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Dec 12, 2019 to Dec 12, 2019: about 21 more stars than usual, peak 24 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 9, 2020 to Apr 9, 2020: about 26 more stars than usual, peak 29 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 10, 2021 to Feb 11, 2021: about 40 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jul 5, 2021 to Jul 8, 2021: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 35 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 22, 2021 to Nov 23, 2021: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Dec 2, 2021 to Dec 2, 2021: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 8, 2022 to Jul 11, 2022: about 139 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 27, 2022 to Sep 29, 2022: about 128 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 26, 2023 to Sep 28, 2023: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 9, 2024 to Jul 10, 2024: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 20, 2025 to Jan 23, 2025: about 82 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Feb 2, 2025 to Feb 21, 2025: about 3.1k more stars than usual, peak 648 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 1, 2025 to Mar 6, 2025: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 443 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 21, 2025 to Apr 16, 2025: about 5.8k more stars than usual, peak 1.5k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 26, 2025 to Apr 26, 2025: about 174 more stars than usual, peak 245 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 10, 2025 to Jul 13, 2025: about 480 more stars than usual, peak 202 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

The star history was reset at some point, so earlier stars aren't counted.
6 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.
The star history has a zero run of 26 weeks or more, so the analysis starts after it.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

ocrmypdf (PYPI): latest 17.13.0, published Sep 28, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

Sources: GitHub: ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF, deps.dev: PyPI ocrmypdf

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 14, 2026: Caution

Computed 13 hours ago · method 2026.10.2