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