Is the "tesseract-ocr.com" website a legitimate website run by the developers of the Tesseract-OCR project?

[Jeremy Teo]

I'm asking this because upon visiting "tesseract-ocr<dot>com", I am greeted with a suspicious "verification pop-up" asking to open up windows powershell and press "ctrl-v", which obviously means it's asking me to run what is probably malware on my machine. I've attached the ctrl-v payload as a .txt file if anyone wants to analyse it. 

If it isn't run by the actual Tesseract-OCR devs, I'm gonna recommend emailing ab...@spaceship.com since that's the domain registrar (based on looking up the WHOIS).

[Zdenko Podobny]

Hi,

The only official Tesseract resources are:

• https://github.com/tesseract-ocr
• https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/

Individual contributors may have their own personal sites, usually dedicated to specific projects, but those are not official.
That site is definitely not part of the official Tesseract project

Zdenko

so 7. 2. 2026 o 18:45 Jeremy Teo <wyrd4...@gmail.com> napísal(a):

I'm asking this because upon visiting "tesseract-ocr<dot>com", I am greeted with a suspicious "verification pop-up" asking to open up windows powershell and press "ctrl-v", which obviously means it's asking me to run what is probably malware on my machine. I've attached the ctrl-v payload as a .txt file if anyone wants to analyse it. 

If it isn't run by the actual Tesseract-OCR devs, I'm gonna recommend emailing ab...@spaceship.com since that's the domain registrar (based on looking up the WHOIS).

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[Nikola Smolenski]

It is malware.

On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM Jeremy Teo <wyrd4...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm asking this because upon visiting "tesseract-ocr<dot>com", I am greeted with a suspicious "verification pop-up" asking to open up windows powershell and press "ctrl-v", which obviously means it's asking me to run what is probably malware on my machine. I've attached the ctrl-v payload as a .txt file if anyone wants to analyse it. 

If it isn't run by the actual Tesseract-OCR devs, I'm gonna recommend emailing ab...@spaceship.com since that's the domain registrar (based on looking up the WHOIS).