Strengths & Limitations

Balanced assessment

Strengths

  • Highly accurate OCR with LSTM-based recognition
  • Supports over 100 languages and scripts
  • Completely free and open source with no licensing fees
  • Flexible output formats including searchable PDFs
  • Strong community support and extensive documentation

Limitations

  • Performance depends heavily on image quality and preprocessing
  • Limited out-of-the-box support for handwriting recognition
  • No official GUI; primarily command-line and API based