Open Source ChromeOS OCR Software
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Browse free open source OCR software and projects for ChromeOS below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source OCR software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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File-em
File-'em is an automatic receipts organizer implemented in Java & SWT.
File-'em (pronounced like phylum) is an open source alternative to the software behind NeatReceipts?®. It allows you to load in scanned receipts and automatically pulls the information out of the receipt using OCR and stores it in a SQLite database for easy reference, reports, and retrieval. -
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An image postprocessor for the DIY Book Scanner described on instructables.com and diybookscanner.org. Gets images ready for OCR or for PDF. Written in Java based on a partial port of the Leptonica image processing library.
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Akshara Malayalam OCR is a project for the development of an OCR for printed and handwritten documents in Malayalam language. The inspiration is from similar OCR softwares in other languages etc.
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Immutable Sparse Wave Trees (WaveTree)
Realtime bigdata tool for bit strings up to 2^63 based on AVL forest
Realtime bigdata tool at the bit level based on immutable AVL forest which can be run in memory or, in future versions, as a merkle forest like a blockchain. Main object is a sparse bit string (Bits) that efficiently scales up to 2^63 bits normally compressed as forest has duplicated substrings. Bits objects support reading bit, byte, short, int, or long (Java primitives) at any bit index in 64 bit range. Example: instead of building a class to hold a header and then data, represent all of that as Bits, subranges of them, and ints for sizes of its parts. Expansion ability for other kinds of compression, since Bits is a Java interface. Main functions on bits are substring, concat, number of 0 or 1 bits, and number of bits (size). All those operations can be done millions of times per second regardless of size because the AVL forest reuses existing branches recursively. Theres a scalar (originally for copy/pasting subranges of sounds) and a bit Java package. Sparse n dimensional matrix. -
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Joshi is a program that tries to recognize shapes on an image with a focus on OCR. It converts the image to vector graphics (polylines) and then tries to project these on stored vector graphics, calculating the best match.
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Neuroph OCR - Handwriting Recognition is developed to recognize hand written letter and characters. It's engine derived's from the Java Neural Network Framework - Neuroph and as such it can be used as a standalone project or a Neuroph plug in.
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Note as of 2013-09-13: I'm moving this project over to github due to this: http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/ Feel free to rejoin the more updated versions on https://github.com/mnott/PDFOCRWrapper Thanks. Matthias -- This is a wrapper written in Java that allows to recursively iterate a directory structure and call an OCR engine on each found PDF on the condition that it hat not yet been called for that PDF. It works well with the ABBYY OCR Engine for Linux.
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SecureJDMS is the attempt to develop a secure DMS, based on an RCP and (even untrusted) DB for data storage. For now, its all about managing scanned documents and searching them by content (using OCR). All data sent and stored will be strongly encrypted.
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Unlimited-OCR
Layout-aware OCR model for multilingual document understanding
Unlimited-OCR is Baidu’s open-source optical character recognition (OCR) model designed to accurately extract and understand text from complex documents, images, and multilingual content. Unlike traditional OCR systems that focus only on text detection and transcription, Unlimited-OCR combines advanced document parsing with language understanding, enabling it to recognize structured elements such as tables, formulas, charts, and mixed-layout documents while preserving their logical organization. The model is optimized for long documents and high-resolution inputs, making it suitable for digitizing books, research papers, invoices, forms, receipts, and business documents. It supports multilingual recognition, robust handling of noisy or distorted images, and integration into document AI pipelines. Built for practical deployment, Unlimited-OCR can serve as the foundation for document indexing, retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge extraction, and intelligent document processing. -
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Waygoer is an OCR program. It is based on contour extraction and momentum transformations. This allows for rotation- and scale-invariant recognition. Waygoer is still at an early stage of development.
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WebDjVuTextEd
Edit the OCR text layer of DjVu documents in a web browser
WebDjVuTextEd allows to edit the text layer of OCR'ed DjVu documents in a web browser. You can modify the structure (paragraphs, lines, words...) create, delete, edit text nodes, modify their container box by mouse, and run a spellchecker. The program does not directly read the DjVu files, it requires exported XML text data and images. When using without a webserver, you can open and save local files, but cannot take advantages of auto-save and spell checking. Note that current SVN version has much more features than V1.0!
