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xberg-candle-ocr vs kreuzberg-candle-ocr vs kreuzberg-tesseract
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
58
xberg-candle-ocr
experimentalv0.0.1
Candle-based VLM OCR engines for Xberg - pure-Rust transformer OCR (TrOCR, PaddleOCR-VL, GLM-OCR)
62
kreuzberg-candle-ocr
experimentalv5.0.0-rc.35
Candle-based VLM OCR engines for Kreuzberg - pure-Rust transformer OCR (TrOCR, PaddleOCR-VL, GLM-OCR)
71
kreuzberg-tesseract
growingv4.10.2
Rust bindings for Tesseract OCR with cross-compilation, C++17, and caching improvements
Core Metrics
| xberg-candle-ocr | kreuzberg-candle-ocr | kreuzberg-tesseract | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 58 | 62 | 71 |
| Total Downloads | 488 | 159 | 36.0K |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 0 | 3.3K |
| Dependents | 52 | 14 | 135 |
| Releases | 28 | 8 | 137 |
| Last Updated | today | 19d ago | 1d ago |
| Age | 18d | 23d | 8m |
Health Breakdown
xberg-candle-ocr
Maintenance
16
Quality
15
Community
11
Popularity
3
Documentation
13
kreuzberg-candle-ocr
Maintenance
18
Quality
17
Community
9
Popularity
3
Documentation
15
kreuzberg-tesseract
Maintenance
19
Quality
20
Community
12
Popularity
5
Documentation
15
Technical Details
| xberg-candle-ocr | kreuzberg-candle-ocr | kreuzberg-tesseract | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.0.1 | 5.0.0-rc.35 | 4.10.2 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| License | MIT | MIT | MIT |
| Dependencies | 0 | 13 | 7 |
| Crate Size | 780B | 132KB | 67KB |
| Features | 0 | 10 | 5 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2024 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | 1.91 | 1.91 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •kreuzberg-tesseract leads with a health score of 71/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •kreuzberg-tesseract is depended on by 135 crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •xberg-candle-ocr is pre-1.0 — API may change.