tesseract-ocr/tesseract
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
77k stars · 10.8k forks · C++
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 72% 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.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 12
- Human commits, 90 days
- 89
- Human commits, 365 days
- 173
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 8%
- Last commit
- Oct 10, 2026 (5 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 10, 2026 (5 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 13
- Last release
- Jul 24, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 14 hours
Responsiveness: of 13 recent issues, 92% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 14 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 173 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 3
- Contributors
- 205
Top committers
- stweil: 72% of commits
- amitdo: 6% of commits
- zdenop: 5% of commits
- eduardomozart: 2% of commits
- egorpugin: 2% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jun 25, 2015 to Jun 27, 2015: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 10, 2015 to Sep 10, 2015: about 25 more stars than usual, peak 33 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 20, 2019 to Dec 20, 2019: about 74 more stars than usual, peak 93 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 18, 2021 to Jul 20, 2021: about 210 more stars than usual, peak 119 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.
- Dec 1, 2021 to Dec 3, 2021: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 27, 2022 to Dec 30, 2022: about 154 more stars than usual, peak 87 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Sep 10, 2025 to Sep 11, 2025: about 142 more stars than usual, peak 145 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- 5 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: tesseract-ocr/tesseract
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[](https://reporadar.ai/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Computed 18 hours ago · method 2026.10.2