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**Please do not change the title of any wiki page without a permission from Tesseract developers.**
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# Introduction
Tesseract is an open source [text recognizer (OCR)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition) Engine, available under the [Apache 2.0 license.](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an [API](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/src/api/baseapi.h) to extract printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of languages.
Tesseract is an open source [text recognition (OCR)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition) Engine, available under the [Apache 2.0 license.](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an [API](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/src/api/baseapi.h) to extract printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of languages.
Tesseract doesn't have a built-in GUI, but there are several available from the [3rdParty](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/User-Projects-%E2%80%93-3rdParty) page.