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OpenKM Document Management - DMS
Document Management System and Content Management System
OpenKM Community Edition is a free Document Management System (DMS) that helps businesses control the production, storage, management and distribution of electronic documents, boosting effectiveness and productivity. It integrates document management, collaboration and advanced search into one easy-to-use solution, including administration tools for user roles, access control, security levels, activity logs and automation setup. With OpenKM Community Edition you can: Collect information from any digital source. Collaborate with colleagues on documents and projects. Capitalize on accumulated knowledge by locating documents and information sources. Control business processes with an embedded workflow engine. Automate tasks. For a complete feature list visit: http://goo.gl/au8cQy -
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pdfsandwich generates "sandwich" OCR pdf files, i.e. pdf files which contain only images (but no editable text) will be processed by optical character recognition (OCR) and the text will be added to each page invisibly "behind" the images. pdfsandwich is a command line tool which is supposed to be useful to OCR scanned books or journals. It is able to recognize the page layout even for multicolumn text. Essentially, pdfsandwich is a wrapper script which calls the following binaries: convert, unpaper, tesseract, gs, and hocr2pdf (if tesseract < 3.03). It is known to run on Unix systems and has been tested on Linux and MacOS X. It supports parallel processing on multiprocessor systems. In contrast to most competing sandwich programs, it performs preprocessing of the scanned images, such as de-skewing or removal of dark edges etc. For further information please read the manual: http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/index.html
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gImageReader
A graphical frontend to tesseract-ocr
gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract. Features include: - Import PDF documents and images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots - Process multiple images and documents in one go - Manual or automatic recognition area definition - Recognize to plain text or to hOCR documents - Recognized text displayed directly next to the image - Post-process the recognized text, including spellchecking - Generate PDF documents from hOCR documents **Note**: This page is only a mirror for the downloads. Development is happening on github at https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader, release binaries are also posted there. -
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A GUI to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan. gscan2pdf should work on almost any Linux/BSD machine.
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Unlimited OCR Works
Welcome the Era of One-shot Long-horizon Parsing
Unlimited-OCR is an OCR and document parsing model project focused on one-shot long-horizon parsing. It is designed to push OCR beyond short, isolated image recognition and into longer document understanding workflows. The project supports single-image parsing as well as multi-page and PDF-style parsing by converting pages into images. It provides inference paths for Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, and SGLang, which gives users several deployment options. The repository also includes example code for batch inference over image folders or PDF inputs. Overall, it is useful for researchers and developers who need advanced OCR, long-document parsing, and model-based extraction from complex visual documents. -
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GLM-OCR
Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive
GLM-OCR is an open-source multimodal optical character recognition (OCR) model built on a GLM-V encoder–decoder foundation that brings robust, accurate document understanding to complex real-world layouts and modalities. Designed to handle text recognition, table parsing, formula extraction, and general information retrieval from documents containing mixed content, GLM-OCR excels across major benchmarks while remaining highly efficient with a relatively compact parameter size (~0.9B), enabling deployment in high-concurrency services and edge environments. The model’s multimodal capabilities allow it to reason across image and text content holistically, capturing structured and unstructured information from pages that include dense tables, seals, code snippets, and varied document graphics. GLM-OCR integrates a comprehensive SDK and inference toolchain that makes it easy for developers to install, invoke, and embed into production pipelines with simple commands or APIs. -
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Scribe.js
JavaScript OCR and text extraction for images and PDFs
Scribe.js is a JavaScript library that provides Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and text extraction capabilities for both images and PDF documents, aimed at developers who want to build OCR features directly into their applications. The library can take image files (such as PNG or JPEG) and recognize the text they contain, and it can also extract text from PDF files that either already contain text or are image-based scans, using modern web standards and WebAssembly under the hood. In addition to simple text extraction, Scribe.js supports writing or injecting a high-quality invisible text layer back into PDFs, effectively making them searchable and improving usability for indexing or accessibility. It is written in modern ECMAScript Modules (ESM), so it can be imported in both browser and Node.js environments without a build step, though browser usage requires same-origin hosting of the files. -
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DeepSeek-OCR
Contexts Optical Compression
DeepSeek-OCR is an open-source optical character recognition solution built as part of the broader DeepSeek AI vision-language ecosystem. It is designed to extract text from images, PDFs, and scanned documents, and integrates with multimodal capabilities that understand layout, context, and visual elements beyond raw character recognition. The system treats OCR not simply as “read the text” but as “understand what the text is doing in the image”—for example distinguishing captions from body text, interpreting tables, or recognizing handwritten versus printed words. It supports local deployment, enabling organizations concerned about privacy or latency to run the pipeline on-premises rather than send sensitive documents to third-party cloud services. The codebase is written in Python with a focus on modularity: you can swap preprocessing, recognition, and post-processing components as needed for custom workflows. -
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phpSANE
Web-Based Frontend for SANE
phpSANE is a web-based frontend for SANE written in HTML/PHP so you can scan with your web-browser. It also supports OCR. -
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chessPDFBrowser
Chess application whichs allows working with chess PDF books and PGNs.
Chess application which allows working with PDFs and PGNs. You can work with the chess games of the PDF and edit their tree of variants. Graphical environment. Standard PGN TAGs. PGN comments. Ocr like (Fen string detection from chess board position images). Connection to Uci chess engines (like stockfish). Position analysis, full game analysis. You can now play games against uci engines. pdf2pgn command line command included. Detailed documentation. Multilanguage currently support for English, Spanish and Catalan. Dark mode option. JDK-17 compatibility You will find more about it at this web sites: https://chesspdfbrowser.com?origin=sourceforge https://www.frojasg1.com:8443/downloads_web/web/html/chessPdfBrowser.html?origin=sourceforge -
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DeepSeek-OCR 2
Visual Causal Flow
DeepSeek-OCR-2 is the second-generation optical character recognition system developed to improve document understanding by introducing a “visual causal flow” mechanism, enabling the encoder to reorder visual tokens in a way that better reflects semantic structure rather than strict raster scan order. It is designed to handle complex layouts and noisy documents by giving the model causal reasoning capabilities that mimic human visual scanning behavior, enhancing OCR performance on documents with rich spatial structure. The repository provides model code and inference scripts that let researchers and developers run and benchmark the system on both images and PDFs, with support for batch evaluation and optimized pipelines leveraging vLLM and transformers. -
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Timeline based editor for creating Compact Disc Subcode Graphics (also known as CD+G or CDG). Both karaoke and multimedia styles of content are supported. Please visit cdgmagic.sf.net for examples playable directly in the HTML5 CD+G player. CD+Graphics Scribe utility (separate download -- click "Browse All Files" above) can now convert existing CDG karaoke content to CMP (CD+Graphics Magic Project), LRC (Enhanced Lyrics), and ASS (Advanced SubStation Alpha) format.
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OpenOCR
An Open-Source Toolkit for General-OCR Research and Applications
OpenOCR is an open-source General OCR toolkit developed by the OCR team at Fudan University for research and real-world document processing applications. It provides a unified platform for text detection, text recognition, formula recognition, table recognition, and document parsing. Built on advanced OCR technologies such as SVTRv2 and UniRec-0.1B, OpenOCR delivers high accuracy while maintaining efficient inference performance. The toolkit supports both Chinese and English content, making it suitable for multilingual document analysis. OpenOCR includes training, evaluation, fine-tuning, and deployment tools, allowing users to customize models for specific OCR tasks. Its comprehensive ecosystem bridges academic research and industrial applications through reproducible benchmarks and commercial-grade OCR solutions. -
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Common Resource Grep - crgrep
Common Resource Grep
CRGREP searches for matching text in databases, various document formats, archives and other difficult to access resources. A command line tool for name and content text matching in database tables, plain files, MS Office documents, PDF, archives, MP3 audio, image meta-data, scanned documents, maven dependencies and web resources. CRGREP will search resources within resources of any arbitrary combination or depth, so text within a document within a zip archive, and so on. Here you will find binary downloads and discussion (https://sourceforge.net/p/crgrep/discussion/) . The actual development and issue tracking can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/cryanfuse/crgrep -
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Linux-Intelligent-Ocr-Solution
Easy-OCR solution and Tesseract trainer for GNU/Linux
Linux-intelligent-ocr-solution Lios is a free and open source software for converting print in to text using either scanner or a camera, It can also produce text out of scanned images from other sources such as Pdf, Image, Folder containing Images or screenshot. Program is given total accessibility for visually impaired. A Tesseract Trainer GUI is also shipped with this package. Forum : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lios Video Tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn29o8rxtRe1zS1r2-yGm1DNMOZCgdU0i Tesseract Training Tutorial (beta) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpCld4cdtk Source Code Github : https://github.com/Nalin-x-Linux/lios-3 Gitlab : https://gitlab.com/Nalin-x-Linux/lios-3 User guide is available in download page -
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DJVU++
The DjVu complete solution,with OCR Technology(Arabic ,English).
DjVu++ is a user-friendly program that used to manipulate DjVu file formats such as eBooks with a penalty of editing features. The program introduce a free replacement for the property PDF format with similar resolution and smaller file size DjVu++ also support OCR to handle text in scanned books and images. The program shows good performance for English. In addition to the Arabic language to lead free and commercial software in this area. The main features of DjVu++ program are: o Manipulate DjVu files. o Support smaller size than PDF with the same performance. o DjVu++ supports two languages in the OCR technique (Arabic and English). o Read multiple documents at the same time with the new tabs feature. o DjVu++ supports multiple formats: Convert PDF document into DjVu format with smaller file size and the same performance. Convert DjVu into PDF format. Combine images to a single DjVu document. Perform OCR operations on multiple image formats. -
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yagf
YAGF is a tesseract and cuneiform wrapper and helper*
YAGF is a graphical front-end for cuneiform and tesseract OCR tools. With YAGF you can open already scanned image files or obtain new images via XSane (scanning results are automatically passed to YAGF). Once you have a scanned image you can prepare it for recognition, select particular image areas for recognition, set the recognition language and so on. Recognized text is displayed in a editor window where it can be corrected, saved to disk or copied to clipboard. YAGF also provides some facilities for a multi-page recognition (see the online help for more details). -
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DigitalEyes is an OCR (Optical Character Recognizer) developed in C/Caml released under GNU GPL by SuM42, as a sophomore project in EPITA.
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Primary goal of Imated is development of handwritten/machine printed - OCR system. And second goal is development text editor, that will be in a position to import scanned documents OCR them on-the-fly, edit them and print/save as a picture again.
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Artificial vision library. Objectives are to make an OCR, fingerprint and face identification as some applications through a general purpose learning and pattern relationships algorithm (Currently performs very basic identification).
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