No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pytesseract has 20.5M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 0.3.13 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2014.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2024.
It is built on top of packaging and pillow. It is used by 840 tracked packages, including llama-index-readers-confluence, autogluon-multimodal and mcp-ocr.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 185 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
82
Adoption
100
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
504 days ago
Monthly downloads
20,462,689
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
•
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
20,462,689
Stars
6,367
Stars per 1k downloads
0.31
•
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
829,745
Month daily avg
682,090
Momentum
+21.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
•
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache License 2.0
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
689 days ago
Total releases
28
Releases/year
2.3
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
•
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
43
Monthly downloads
20,462,689
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
56
Issue Burden
2.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
185d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
616.1K
Windows
25.5K
macOS
7.5K
Python Versions
3.12
65.7%
417.3K
3.11
11.9%
75.9K
3.13
11.5%
73.0K
3.10
6.9%
43.9K
3.14
4.0%
25.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
535.9K
US
2.
CN
16.4K
CN
3.
SG
13.6K
SG
4.
IN
12.7K
IN
5.
DE
7.9K
DE
6.
AT
6.0K
AT
7.
HK
6.0K
HK
8.
FI
5.8K
FI
9.
GB
4.5K
GB
10.
NL
4.2K
NL
Used By
840
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- autogluon-multimodal
- mcp-ocr
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- idvpackage
- trustgraph-ocr
- memorised-them-all
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- memobot
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- rpaframework-recognition
- aiecs
- ai-parrot-pipelines
- fudstop
- dulus
- attachments
- winebox
- jama-certic
- gitcast
- abstract-clipit
- ams-meta-analysis
- watchui
- flare-kernel
- quantaxis
- olly-desktop
- lx-anonymizer
- llmvm-cli
- trace-digitiser
- protollm
- synapse-assistant-ai
- curllm
- echo-mcp
- remarkable-mcp
- scaledp
- prevectorchunks-core
- phantomsignal
- gramps-webapi
- finamt
- pcleaner
Package Information
License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
February 6, 2014
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.3.13
Total Releases
28
Contributors
43
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Samuel Hoffstaetter
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh