Tesseract.js
Pure JavaScript OCR engine for recognizing text in images.
Files, images and media npm Apache-2.0
Used in agent projects
31
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in files, images and media
#32 of 52
by use in those projects
Downloads
3.4M
npm, last 7 days, tesseract.js
GitHub stars
38.8K
last push May 17, 2026
How Tesseract.js is used
Tesseract.js is a dependency in 31 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #32 of 52 in files, images and media. The most used alternative there is Sharp. Projects that use it most often also use Lucide React (67.7%), Zod (58.1%), Supabase JS (48.4%).
Often used with Tesseract.js
| Lucide React | 67.7% of Tesseract.js projects · 3.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| Zod | 58.1% of Tesseract.js projects · 3.4× more than average |
| Supabase JS | 48.4% of Tesseract.js projects · 6.6× more than average |
| Vitest | 48.4% of Tesseract.js projects · 4.0× more than average |
| date-fns | 45.2% of Tesseract.js projects · 5.3× more than average |
| Radix UI | 45.2% of Tesseract.js projects · 3.8× more than average |
| Recharts | 41.9% of Tesseract.js projects · 5.1× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 48.4% of Tesseract.js projects · 3.4× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Tesseract.js as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install tesseract.js |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (17), Next.js (14) |
| Example projects | JNTMTMTM/eIsland, guimatheus92/mcp-video-analyzer, thebenlamm/image-gen-mcp, OpenWaggle/OpenWaggle |
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