Skill comparison
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Comparing 4 skills
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Decision summary
Tesseract is the strongest overall pick here because it has a 100/100 readiness score and fits Document processing.
Strongest overall
Tesseract
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Fastest prototype
Tesseract
Best first install candidate based on install readiness and adoption.
Freshest repo
Tesseract
Most recent maintenance signal among this shortlist.
| Signal | Crnn Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN) for image-based sequence recognition. | MixTeX Latex OCR MixTeX multimodal LaTeX, ZhEn, and, Table OCR. It performs efficient CPU-based inference in a local offline on Windows. | SimpleHTR Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system implemented with TensorFlow. | Tesseract Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository) |
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| Quality | 74/100 Strong | 72/100 Strong | 95/100 Excellent | 100/100 Excellent |
| Decision verdict | 76/100 Strong shortlist Shortlist this skill and compare it with close alternatives before production adoption. | 74/100 Strong shortlist Shortlist this skill and compare it with close alternatives before production adoption. | 100/100 Production-ready Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack. | 100/100 Production-ready Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack. |
| Adoption | 2.1K stars 0 installs | 1.6K stars 0 installs | 2.2K stars 0 installs | 75K stars 0 installs |
| Freshness | Mar 4, 2019 | Apr 24, 2025 | Jan 31, 2026 | Jun 13, 2026 |
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| Platform hints | Lua, OCR, Claude Code | Python, OCR, Claude Code | Python, OCR, Claude Code | C++, OCR, Claude Code |
| Warnings | Repository looks stale · No OpenAgentSkill engagement data yet | Repository looks stale · No OpenAgentSkill engagement data yet | No OpenAgentSkill engagement data yet | No OpenAgentSkill engagement data yet |
| Best for | Document processing workflows · Claude Code teams · teams that value GitHub adoption signals | Document processing workflows · Claude Code teams · teams that value GitHub adoption signals | Document processing workflows · Claude Code teams · teams that value GitHub adoption signals | Document processing workflows · Claude Code teams · teams that value GitHub adoption signals |
| Not ideal for | teams that require actively maintained dependencies · production agents without a repository review | teams that require actively maintained dependencies · production agents without a repository review | teams that need a vendor-supported SLA · high-compliance environments without internal security review | teams that need a vendor-supported SLA · high-compliance environments without internal security review |
| OpenAgentSkill engagement | 0 views 0 install copies | 0 views 0 install copies | 0 views 0 install copies | 0 views 0 install copies |
| Install | $ npx skills add bgshih/crnn | $ npx skills add RQLuo/MixTeX-Latex-OCR | $ npx skills add githubharald/SimpleHTR | $ npx skills add tesseract-ocr/tesseract |