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Version 2 is now available and under development in the master branch, read a story about v2: < a href = "https://jeromewu.github.io/why-i-refactor-tesseract.js-v2/" > Why I refactor tesseract.js v2?< / a > < br >
Check the < a href = "https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js/tree/support/1.x" > support/1.x< / a > branch for version 1
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Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in [almost any language ](./docs/tesseract_lang_list.md ) out of images. ([Demo](http://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/))
Image Recognition
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[Check out the docs ](#documentation ) for a full explanation of the API.
## Major changes in v3
- Significantly faster performance
- Runtime reduction of 84% for Browser and 96% for Node.js when recognizing the [example images ](./examples/data )
- Upgrade to Tesseract v5.1.0 (using emscripten 3.1.18)
- Added SIMD-enabled build for supported devices
- Added support:
- Node.js version 18
- Removed support:
- ASM.js version, any other old versions of Tesseract.js-core (< 3.0.0 )
- Node.js versions 10 and 12
## Major changes in v2
- Upgrade to tesseract v4.1.1 (using emscripten 1.39.10 upstream)
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- Support WebAssembly (fallback to ASM.js when browser doesn't support)
- Support Typescript
Read a story about v2: < a href = "https://jeromewu.github.io/why-i-refactor-tesseract.js-v2/" > Why I refactor tesseract.js v2?< / a > < br >
Check the < a href = "https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js/tree/support/1.x" > support/1.x< / a > branch for version 1
## Installation
Tesseract.js works with a `<script>` tag via local copy or CDN, with webpack via `npm` and on Node.js with `npm/yarn` .