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 * [pytesseract](https://github.com/madmaze/pytesseract) - A wrapper for [Google Tesseract OCR](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr).
 * [SimpleCV](https://github.com/sightmachine/SimpleCV) - An open source framework for building computer vision applications.
 * [tesserocr](https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr) - Another simple, Pillow-friendly, wrapper around the `tesseract-ocr` API for OCR.
+* [Mahotas](https://mahotas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - The interface is in Python, which is appropriate for fast development, but the algorithms are implemented in C++ and tuned for speed. Mahotas' library is fast with minimalistic code and even minimum dependencies. 
 
 ## Concurrency and Parallelism