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OCRmyPDF
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files
OCRmyPDF adds an optical character recognition (OCR) text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. PDF is the best format for storing and exchanging scanned documents. Unfortunately, PDFs can be difficult to modify. OCRmyPDF makes it easy to apply image processing and OCR (recognized, searchable text) to existing PDFs. -
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PaddleOCR
Awesome multilingual OCR toolkits based on PaddlePaddle
PaddleOCR offers exceptional, multilingual, and practical Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools that can help users train better models and apply them into practice. Inspired by PaddlePaddle, PaddleOCR is an ultra lightweight OCR system, with multilingual recognition, digit recognition, vertical text recognition, as well as long text recognition. It features a PPOCR series of high-quality pre-trained models, which includes: ultra lightweight ppocr_mobile series models, general ppocr_server series models, and ultra lightweight compression ppocr_mobile_slim series models. PaddleOCR is easy to install and easy to use on Windows, Linux, MacOS and other systems. -
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Video-subtitle-extractor
A GUI tool for extracting hard-coded subtitle (hardsub) from videos
Video hard subtitle extraction, generate srt file. There is no need to apply for a third-party API, and text recognition can be implemented locally. A deep learning-based video subtitle extraction framework, including subtitle region detection and subtitle content extraction. A GUI tool for extracting hard-coded subtitles (hardsub) from videos and generating srt files. Use local OCR recognition, no need to set up and call any API, and do not need to access online OCR services such as Baidu and Ali to complete text recognition locally. Support GPU acceleration, after GPU acceleration, you can get higher accuracy and faster extraction speed. (CLI version) No need for users to manually set the subtitle area, the project automatically detects the subtitle area through the text detection model. Filter the text in the non-subtitle area and remove the watermark (station logo) text. -
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Umi-OCR
OCR software, free and offline
Umi-OCR is a free and open-source optical character recognition (OCR) tool designed to provide fast, offline text extraction from images, screenshots, PDFs, and more without requiring a network connection. It includes a highly efficient offline OCR engine with built-in multilingual recognition libraries, so users can extract text across multiple languages with high accuracy directly on their machines. The software supports flexible usage patterns including screenshot capture OCR, batch processing of large sets of images or documents, PDF parsing, QR code detection, and layout-aware paragraph output. Users can interact with Umi-OCR through a graphical interface, command-line options, or HTTP interfaces, making it adaptable to both casual desktop usage and programmatic automation. Because the project is open source, developers can inspect, modify, and extend its capabilities, and plugins allow for different recognition engines or enhanced features. -
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EasyOCR
Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages
Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc. EasyOCR is a python module for extracting text from image. It is a general OCR that can read both natural scene text and dense text in document. We are currently supporting 80+ languages and expanding. Second-generation models: multiple times smaller size, multiple times faster inference, additional characters and comparable accuracy to the first generation models. EasyOCR will choose the latest model by default but you can also specify which model to use. Model weights for the chosen language will be automatically downloaded or you can download them manually from the model hub. The idea is to be able to plug-in any state-of-the-art model into EasyOCR. There are a lot of geniuses trying to make better detection/recognition models, but we are not trying to be geniuses here. We just want to make their works quickly accessible to the public. -
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MinerU
A high-quality tool for convert PDF to Markdown and JSON
MinerU is an open-source, high-quality document extraction toolkit focused on converting PDFs (and other document formats) into structured Markdown and JSON. It leverages OCR and layout analysis to preserve semantic structure and metadata, ideal for research and data science workflows. -
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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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qiji-font
Typeface from Ming Dynasty woodblock printed books
Typeface from Ming Dynasty woodblock printed books. A Ming typeface. Extracted from Ming Dynasty woodblock printed books (凌閔刻本). Using semi-automatic computer vision and OCR. Open-source. A work in progress. Named in honor of 閔齊伋, a 16th-century printer. Intended to be used with Kenyan-lang, the Classical Chinese programming language. Download high-resolution PDFs and split pages into images. Manually lay a grid on top of each page to generate bounding boxes for characters (potentially replaceable by an automatic corner-detection algorithm). Generate a low-poly mask for each character on the grid, and save the thumbnails (using OpenCV). First, red channel is subtracted from the grayscale, in order to clean the annotations printed in red ink. Next, the image is thresholded and fed into the contour-tracing algorithm. A metric is then used to discard shapes that are unlikely to be part of the character in interest. -
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DocTR
Library for OCR-related tasks powered by Deep Learning
DocTR provides an easy and powerful way to extract valuable information from your documents. Seemlessly process documents for Natural Language Understanding tasks: we provide OCR predictors to parse textual information (localize and identify each word) from your documents. Robust 2-stage (detection + recognition) OCR predictors with pretrained parameters. User-friendly, 3 lines of code to load a document and extract text with a predictor. State-of-the-art performances on public document datasets, comparable with GoogleVision/AWS Textract. Easy integration (available templates for browser demo & API deployment). End-to-End OCR is achieved in docTR using a two-stage approach: text detection (localizing words), then text recognition (identify all characters in the word). As such, you can select the architecture used for text detection, and the one for text recognition from the list of available implementations. -
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Papermerge
Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives
Papermerge is an open source document management system (DMS) primarily designed for archiving and retrieving your digital documents. Instead of having piles of paper documents all over your desk, office or drawers - you can quickly scan them and configure your scanner to directly upload to Papermerge DMS. Store, organize and index scanned documents in PDF, JPEG and TIFF formats. Instantly find relevant information using full text, tags and metadata-based search. Papermerge is free and open-source software which means that transparency is the core value of our software development. Source code can be reviewed and improved by anyone from anywhere. Papermerge supports multiple users. Each user can be assigned different permissions to perform only a specific kind of action e.g. view only documents from a specific folder. OCR technology is vital part of Papermerge. It extracts text information from scanned documents, PDF, JPEG, TIFF 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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Nougat
Implementation of Nougat Neural Optical Understanding
Nougat is a multi-modal generative modeling framework that bridges vision and text modalities with structured generation control (e.g. layout, scene composition) rather than treating images as flat contexts. It combines object-centric modules with transformer-based reasoning to propose, refine, and render scenes in a generative pipeline. The architecture allows you to specify or prompt a layout (which objects should be where) and then the model fills in appearance, context, lighting, and relations coherently. The design supports interactive editing: you could adjust object positions or types and have the model adapt generation accordingly. Because it integrates structured layout reasoning, Nougat tends to produce more compositional and controllable results than purely unconstrained generative models. -
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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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Paper2GUI
Convert AI papers to GUI
Convert AI papers to GUI，Make it easy and convenient for everyone to use artificial intelligence technology。让每个人都简单方便的使用前沿人工智能技术 Paper2GUI: An AI desktop APP toolbox for ordinary people. It can be used immediately without installation. It already supports 40+ AI models, covering AI painting, speech synthesis, video frame complementing, video super-resolution, object detection, and image stylization. , OCR recognition and other fields. Support Windows, Mac, Linux systems. Paper2GUI: 一款面向普通人的 AI 桌面 APP 工具箱，免安装即开即用，已支持 40+AI 模型，内容涵盖 AI 绘画、语音合成、视频补帧、视频超分、目标检测、图片风格化、OCR 识别等领域。支持 Windows、Mac、Linux 系统。 -
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Screen Translate
An OCR translator tool made by utilizing tesseract & python-opencv
STL is an easy to use and light OCR translator tool that can be use to translate your screen. Made with python by utilizing Tesseract and opencv-python. For full view of the project you can check the Github repository: https://github.com/Dadangdut33/Screen-Translate REQUIREMENTS - Tesseract : https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki. Needed for the ocr. Install it with all the language pack. - Libretranslate (Optional for offline translation support) - Internet connection for translation if not using libretranslate # Tutorial on How To Setup https://github.com/Dadangdut33/Screen-Translate#installation-and-setup -
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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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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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HunyuanOCR
OCR expert VLM powered by Hunyuan's native multimodal architecture
HunyuanOCR is an open-source, end-to-end OCR (optical character recognition) Vision-Language Model (VLM) developed by Tencent‑Hunyuan. It’s designed to unify the entire OCR pipeline, detection, recognition, layout parsing, information extraction, translation, and even subtitle or structured output generation, into a single model inference instead of a cascade of separate tools. Despite being fairly lightweight (about 1 billion parameters), it delivers state-of-the-art performance across a wide variety of OCR tasks, outperforming many traditional OCR systems and even other multimodal models on benchmark suites. HunyuanOCR handles complex documents: multi-column layouts, tables, mathematical formulas, mixed languages, handwritten or stylized fonts, receipts, tickets, and even video-frame subtitles. The project provides code, pretrained weights, and inference instructions, making it feasible to deploy locally or on a server, and to integrate with applications. -
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dots.ocr
Multilingual Document Layout Parsing in a Single Vision-Language Model
dots.ocr is a cutting-edge multilingual document parsing system built on a unified vision-language model that combines layout detection, text recognition, and structural understanding into a single architecture. Unlike traditional OCR pipelines that rely on multiple specialized components, dots.ocr integrates these processes end-to-end, reducing error propagation and improving consistency across tasks. The model is designed to recognize virtually any human script, making it highly effective for global and low-resource language scenarios. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on document parsing benchmarks while maintaining a relatively compact model size, demonstrating efficiency without sacrificing accuracy. Beyond standard OCR tasks, it extends its capabilities to parse complex visual elements such as charts, diagrams, and web interfaces, converting them into structured outputs like SVG code. -
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Tessract-GUI is not a front-end for tesseract-ocr. It is just a graphical way to use it with simple image manipulation thru ImageMagick.
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bitfarm-Archiv is a powerful Document Management (DMS), Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Knowledge Management System (KMS) with Workflow Components. Help us! As we live in the internet age, the best thing, you can help, is to write a short statement about your scenario and your use of the DMS, along with your experiences and put it on your own website or in a blog or forum. It would help us best, if you can also add a hyperlink to our site http://www.bitfarm-archiv.com. By this you help the software to gain a better presence in the web which helps distribute it. This, however, will allow us to acquire more enterprise customers which gives us more resources, e.g. for further development of the GPL version.
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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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e-Dokyumento
e-Dokyumento is web-based Document Management System (DMS)
e-Dokyumento is opensource web-based Document Management System (DMS) A Document Management which automates the basic office document workflow such as receiving, filing, routing, and approving through capturing (scanning), digitizing (OCR Reading), storing, tagging, and electronically routing and approving (e-signature) of electronic documents. # Demo : https://e-dokyumento.herokuapp.com/ https://edokyu.seillig.com/ (refer to Readme.md for the accounts) #Dockerhub: https://hub.docker.com/r/nelsonmaligro/edokyumento # Install using the ISO: 1. Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/e-dokyumento/files/Releases/e-DokyuV3.iso/download 2. Boot and login with: "root" and "admin@123" 3. Create 2 partitions: SWAP and / mount 4. Login and move "/opt/drive" folder to root: "mv /opt/drive /" # Install on Ubuntu: https://sourceforge.net/projects/e-dokyumento/files/Install%20e-Dokyumento%20on%20Ubuntu%20Linux.pdf/download -
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CCTV Frame Timestamp Extractor
CCTV Footage Timestamp Search Tool
Python script to address the problem of manually locating required event timestamps from carved CCTV DVR footages. Full details can be found in the paper published in Eighteenth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics. Link to paper: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-10078-9_8 The project has been divided into four modules: Framextract.py- Extracts frames from video footages Reconstruct.py- Attempts to repair unplayable video by extracting the frames. framestitch.py- Attempts to construct video using frames extracted from unplayable video. OCR.py- Performs image preprocessing & OCR on the extracted frames. -
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LayoutParser
A Unified Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image Analysis
With the help of state-of-the-art deep learning models, Layout Parser enables extracting complicated document structures using only several lines of code. This method is also more robust and generalizable as no sophisticated rules are involved in this process. A complete instruction for installing the main Layout Parser library and auxiliary components. Learn how to load DL Layout models and use them for layout detection. The full list of layout models currently available in Layout Parser. After several major updates, layoutparser provides various functionalities and deep learning models from different backends. But it still easy to install layoutparser, and we designed the installation method in a way such that you can choose to install only the needed dependencies for your project. LayoutParser is also a open platform that enables the sharing of layout detection models and DIA pipelines among the community.
