Leptonica
A C library for efficient image processing and analysis, widely used in OCR and computer vision applications.
What is Leptonica?
Leptonica is an open-source C library designed for image processing and image analysis applications. It provides a wide range of functions for manipulating and analyzing both document images and natural images, serving as a foundational component for optical character recognition (OCR) and computer vision systems. The library handles operations from basic raster operations to advanced document analysis tasks like skew detection and page segmentation.
Developers building image processing applications, OCR systems, computer vision tools, and document analysis software who need a robust, efficient C library for low-level image manipulation.
Developers choose Leptonica for its comprehensive functionality, proven reliability through extensive testing, and widespread adoption in major projects like Tesseract and OpenCV. Its efficient implementation, thread-safe design, and portability across platforms make it a trusted foundation for image processing tasks.
Overview
Leptonica is an open source library containing software that is broadly useful for image processing and image analysis applications. The official github repository for Leptonica is: danbloomberg/leptonica. See leptonica.org for more documentation.
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