Name: OCR (Tesseract)
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Totschnig

01 / Overview

Is OCR (Tesseract) safe?

This app bundles OCR functionality (based on Tesseract) that can be called from other apps via Intents. It listens for Intents with action "org.totschnig.ocr.action.RECOGNIZE" and expects an Uri pointing to a JPEG file as data. The recognized text is passed back in the extra "result" as an object of a parcelable data class Text, that must be copied into the client app. This app is not intended to…

Developer: Michael Totschnig
Category: Graphics
First release: 20 Mar 2025
License: Not documented

02 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDorg.totschnig.ocr.tesseract

Latest APK SHA-25605fc841e5c112b2de9436f572b7a1580a78cd47038d2f3e0eb58345f7a47f514

Signing certificate1E:DF:9D:88:43:93:5A:BC:5E:04:DD:5A:98:D8:E4:6A:55:32:15:38:C7:85:2B:0E:46:35:EC:1D:59:4A:98:70

MIN ANDROID21TARGET35ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

03 / History

Project timeline

20 Mar 2025

Package observed in source index

Metadata and versions observed from the fdroid repository index.

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

1 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

2.5.020 Mar 202521+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→

05 / Safety & access

Safety verdict

Authentic — file hash matches the source indexNo ads or tracking flagged by the source

IntegritySHA-256 verified vs source

SourceOpen-source · fdroid

Permissions3 declared · 1 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Declared permissions

android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE org.totschnig.ocr.tesseract.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Tracker status: Not assessed by WIKI for Android.

06 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗