Tesseract: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Tesseract from Charles Weld

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-01-21

What is Tesseract?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementTesseract 5 adds a new neural net (LSTM) based OCR engine which is focused on line recognition, but also still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine of Tesseract 3 which works by recognizing character patterns. Compatibility with Tesseract 3 is enabled by using the Legacy OCR Engine mode. It also needs traineddata files which support the legacy engine, for example those from the tessdata repository.
 

The entire lifecycle of Tesseract

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Tesseract. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Tesseract (Charles Weld) release, version and end-of-life information
XTesseract (Charles Weld) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Tesseract (Charles Weld)
 

Facts and figures about Tesseract

Product
Tesseract
Vendor
Charles Weld
Latest version
5.2.0
Number of releases
5
Number of versions
30
Number of unstable versions
8
Number of versions affected by CVE
0
Licence
Apache-2.0
Licence details
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Tesseract/5.2.0/license
 
 

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