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View 66 business solutionsBrowse free open source OCR software and projects for Windows 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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Tesseract OCR
Open Source OCR Engine
Tesseract is an open source OCR or optical character recognition engine and command line program. OCR is a technology that allows for the recognition of text characters within a digital image. With the latest version of Tesseract, there is a greater focus on line recognition, however it still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine which recognizes character patterns. Tesseract can recognize over 100 languages out-of-the-box, and can be trained to recognize other languages. It supports various output formats, including plain text, HTML, PDF and more. It also has unicode (UTF-8) support. -
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AnyTXT Searcher
A Powerful Desktop Full-Text Search Engine, Just Like Local Google.
AnyTXT Searcher is a powerful file full-text search engine, a desktop search application for fast document retrieval. Just like a local disk Google search engine, much faster than Windows Search, it is your ideal desktop file content full-text search engine. It has a powerful document parsing engine built in, which extracts the text of commonly used file formats without installing any other software, and combines the built-in high-speed indexing system to store the metadata of the text. You can quickly find any text in any file on your disk by Anytxt almost in 0.1 second. It works on Windows 11,10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2008, 2012, 2016,2022... AnyTXT Searcher supports the following file formats: Plain text (txt, cpp, py, html, etc.) Microsoft OneNote (one) Microsoft Word (doc, docx) Microsoft Excel (xls, xlsx) Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt, pptx) PDF WPS Office (wps, et, dps) EBook (epub, mobi, azw3, fb2 etc.) Mind Map Format (lighten, mmap, mm, xmind etc.) OFD ..... -
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Capture2Text
Quickly OCR part of the screen and save resulting text to clipboard
Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut. The resulting text will be saved to the clipboard by default. Supports 90+ languages including Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish. Portable and does not require installation. See http://capture2text.sourceforge.net for details. -
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NAPS2 - Not Another PDF Scanner
Scan documents to PDF and other file types, as simply as possible.
Visit NAPS2's home page at www.naps2.com. NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Scan your documents from WIA- and TWAIN-compatible scanners, organize the pages as you like, and save them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and other file formats. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. NAPS2 is currently available in over 40 different languages. Want to see NAPS2 in your preferred language? Help translate! See the wiki for more details. -
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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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The main purpose of this program is to provide functionality for extract hardcoded subtitles (hardsub) from video. It provides two main features: 1) Autodetection of frames with hardcoded text (hardsub) on video with saving info about timing positions. 2) Generation of cleared from background text images, which allows with usage of OCR programs (like FineReader, Subtitle Edit, Google Drive) to generate complete subtitles with original text and timing. For working of this program on Windows will be required "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable runtime libraries 2022": https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads Latest versions were built and tested on: Windows 10 x64, Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS, openSUSE Leap 15.4, Arch Linux (EndeavourOS Cassini Nova 03-2023) For faster support in case of bug fixes please contact me in: https://vk.com/skosnits For donate: https://sourceforge.net/projects/videosubfinder/donate
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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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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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tesseract-ocr alternative download
Alternative download for tesseract-ocr project
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Subtitle Workshop
Free subtitle editor
Subtitle Workshop is a free application for creating, editing, and converting text-based subtitle files. It supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the features you would want. -
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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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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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Umi-OCR
Free OCR Software: No internet required, easy to use.
Support screenshots/pasting/batch importing of images, paragraph layout/excluding watermarks, scanning/generating QR codes. No need for internet connection throughout the entire process, with built-in multi language recognition library. 支持截屏/粘贴/批量导入图片，支持段落排版/排除水印，扫描/生成二维码。全程无需联网，内置多国语言识别库。 -
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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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Tesseract.js
A pure Javascript Multilingual OCR
Tesseract.js is a pure Javascript port of the popular Tesseract OCR engine. Tesseract.js' library supports more than 100 languages, automatic text orientation and script detection, a simple interface for reading paragraph, word, and character bounding boxes. Tesseract.js can run either in a browser and on a server with NodeJS. Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any spoken language out of images. The main Tesseract.js functions (ex. recognize, detect) take an image parameter, which should be something that is like an image. What's considered "image-like" differs depending on whether it is being run from the browser or through NodeJS. -
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PaddleOCR-json
OCR offline image text recognition command line windows program
PaddleOCR-json is an OCR engine based on the PaddleOCR project that provides a command-line interface and tools for extracting text from images and exporting results in structured JSON format. It wraps the PaddleOCR models, which are capable of detecting and recognizing text in a wide variety of languages and layouts, into a self-contained executable that can be run locally without needing a deep learning environment configured manually. This makes it practical for developers or system integrators who want reliable OCR output in JSON while avoiding the complexity of training or managing models by hand. Projects and wrappers built around PaddleOCR-json demonstrate how it can be integrated into other applications, such as desktop OCR utilities or language-specific bindings, because the JSON output is easy to parse and consume. -
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openalpr
Automatic license plate recognition library
Deploy license plate and vehicle recognition with Rekor’s OpenALPR suite of solutions designed to provide invaluable vehicle intelligence which enhances business capabilities, automates tasks, and increases overall community safety! Rekor’s OpenALPR suite of solutions utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to greatly surpass legacy OCR solutions. Now, in real-time, users can receive a vehicle's plate number, make, model, color, and direction of travel. Rekor’s OpenALPR suite of solutions allows law enforcement and homeowners to protect their communities, while businesses can boost customer loyalty by receiving alerts the moment a plate of interest is detected. Rekor’s OpenALPR suite of solutions is a force multiplier. Rekor Scout™ upgrades nearly any IP, traffic, or security camera to give you an immediate edge, while Rekor CarCheck analyzes vehicle images and returns valuable data for countless business use-cases. -
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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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VoiceCommander Multilingual Offline
Offline multilingual voice control for Windows. Fast, private, local.
Return any reviews or problem to : ducktheapp@gmail.com VoiceCommander Multilingual Offline is a local voice command system for Windows, focused on speed, privacy, and simplicity. It runs entirely on your PC with no cloud services, no external APIs, and no internet connection. All voice recognition and commands are processed locally, ensuring full control of your data. The software allows you to control your computer using voice commands in multiple languages, including launching applications, managing system functions, and interacting with Windows. Features: - 100% offline (no cloud, no data sharing) - Multilingual voice commands - Control apps, browser, and system - OCR + text-to-speech screen reading - Portable (no installation) - No registry changes NVIDIA GPU recommended (GTX 1060+). CPU mode supported (slower). A practical alternative to cloud-based voice assistants. For any other information please contact : ducktheapp@gmail.com The Duck -
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Hathi Download Helper
Download books from the hathitrust website in a fast and easy manner
2025-05-08 ====================== PLEASE NOTE ======================= Due to changes to the API of the hathirtust homepage, the HDH is no longer functional!! Please check the project Wiki for alternative methods. https://sourceforge.net/p/hathidownloadhelper/alternative/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hathi Download Helper was a tool for downloading public domain books from hathitrust.org. E-Mail contact: hathidownloadhelper@hotmail.com -
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VoiceCommander 2.0 Multilingual Offline
2.0 Offline multilingual voice control for Windows. Fast, private
Release 2,0 : Full project website: https://voicecommander2multilingual.sourceforge.io/ Return any reviews or problem to : ducktheapp@gmail.com VoiceCommander Multilingual Offline is a local voice command system for Windows, focused on speed, privacy, and simplicity. It runs entirely on your PC with no cloud services, no external APIs, and no internet connection. All voice recognition and commands are processed locally, ensuring full control of your data. The software allows you to control your computer using voice commands in multiple languages, including launching applications, managing system functions, and interacting with Windows. Features: - 100% offline (no cloud, no data sharing) - Multilingual voice commands - Control apps, browser, and system - OCR + text-to-speech screen reading - Portable (no installation) - No registry changes NVIDIA GPU recommended (GTX 1060+). CPU mode supported (slower). For any other information please contact : Ducktheapp
