Is tesseract safe to use?

tesseract has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (5.2.5). DepScope rates its health at 52/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of tesseract?

The latest version of tesseract is 5.2.5, released 2026-01-26.

Does tesseract have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of tesseract.

Is tesseract deprecated?

No, tesseract is actively maintained. Latest release: 5.2.5 (2026-01-26).

What are alternatives to tesseract?

DepScope has no curated alternatives for tesseract at this time.

What license does tesseract use?

tesseract is licensed under Apache License 2.0.

tesseract

cranv5.2.5

Open Source OCR Engine. Bindings to 'Tesseract': a powerful optical character recognition (OCR) engine that supports over 100 languages. The engine is highly configurable in order to tune the detection algorithms and obtain the best possible results.

License Apache License 2.0permissive0 versions1 maintainers5 deps23,385 weekly dl

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tesseract

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 52/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

10/20

popularity

25/25

security

0/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (5)

Rcpp pdftools curl rappdirs digest

API access

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First published · 2026-01-26 15:00:27

Last updated · 2026-01-26T13:30:02+00:00