Open Source Linux OCR Software
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View 25 business solutionsBrowse free open source OCR software and projects for Linux 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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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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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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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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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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tesseract-ocr alternative download
Alternative download for tesseract-ocr project
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Super-PDF-Editor
World's most comprehensive, powerful, process-based PDF editor
World's most comprehensive, powerful, process-based and lighting fast PDF reader, editor and batch processor. PDF editing with 60+ features rich tools and function like OCR pdf and images and produce output like searchable PDF, Text, Hocr, Box, Unlv. Also, improve image enhancement before OCR operation for better OCR performance. pdf Imposition, etc. Super PDF Editor is best for bulk pdf processing, especially for the printing industry. Easy pdf imposition, booklet, n ups pages, and more. OCR performs in pdf files, scanned pdf files and any pdf files. OCR performs in image files, and supports multiple image formats. Auto and manual image enhancement for better OCR accuracy and quality. Supports 165+ languages with three languages data set. Use Multiple Languages at once. International Languages: 127 Languages, High, Medium, and Fast Quality. Scanned Images (jpg, png, gif, tiff, bmp) Multi-Page and TIFF and GIF, Scanned PDFs. -
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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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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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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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Multiuser HylaFAX PHP/MySQL Web interface for viewing faxes online, downloading & emailing in PDF format, and categorizing & archiving all sent and received faxes.
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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.
