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@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Examples can be found in the [wiki](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/w
 
 Developers can use `libtesseract` [C](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/src/api/capi.h) or [C++](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/src/api/baseapi.h) API to build their own application. If you need bindings to `libtesseract` for other programming languages, please see the [wrapper](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/AddOns#tesseract-wrappers) section on AddOns wiki page.
 
-Documentation of Tesseract generated from source code by doxygen can be found on [tesseract-ocr.github.io](http://tesseract-ocr.github.io/).
+Documentation of Tesseract generated from source code by doxygen can be found on [tesseract-ocr.github.io](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/).
 
 ## Support