Tesseract OCR vs ZXing

Overview

Tesseract OCR

Stacks96

Followers286

Votes7

GitHub Stars70.7K

Forks10.4K

ZXing

Stacks10

Followers14

Votes0

GitHub Stars33.7K

Forks9.4K

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Detailed Comparison

Tesseract OCR	ZXing
Tesseract was originally developed at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol and at Hewlett-Packard Co, Greeley Colorado between 1985 and 1994, with some more changes made in 1996 to port to Windows, and some C++izing in 1998. In 2005 Tesseract was open sourced by HP. Since 2006 it is developed by Google.	It is a barcode scanning library for Java, Android. Decode a 1D or 2D barcode from an image on the web.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 70.7K	GitHub Stars 33.7K
GitHub Forks 10.4K	GitHub Forks 9.4K
Stacks 96	Stacks 10
Followers 286	Followers 14
Votes 7	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 5 Building training set is easy 2 Very lightweight library Cons 1 Works best with white background and black text	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	Java Android OS

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