Open Source Linux OCR Software
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View 24 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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OpenKM Document Management - DMS
Document Management System and Content Management System
OpenKM is a electronic document management system and record management system EDRMS ( DMS, RMS, CMS ). It provides modern and flexible architecture that meet today's IT demands, based on open technology (Java, Tomcat, GWT, Lucene, Hibernate, Spring and jBPM), powerful and scalable multiplatform application. OpenKM is a Web 2.0 application that works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Can be configured in major DMBS like Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL among others. Due to its technological architecture design, OpenKM meets the document management needs of businesses of all sizes (from SMEs to big corporations). Thanks to its elegant and intuitive interface, OpenKM transforms complex operations into easy tasks. The most relevant functions of OpenKM is the indexing of the most common types of files: text, Office, Office 2007, OpenOffice, PDF, HTML, XML, MP3, JPEG, etc. For a complete feature list take a look at http://goo.gl/au8cQy -
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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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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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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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Total Network Visibility for Network Engineers and IT ManagersThis means every device on your network, and every interface on every device is automatically analyzed for performance, errors, QoS, and configuration.
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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 currently no longer functional!! --- 2023-08-15: Hathi Download Helper 1.2.3 released Hathi Download Helper is a tool for downloading public domain books from hathitrust.org. Dependencies: - for merging of pdf files the freeware "pdftk" (http://www.pdflabs.com/) is used. Miscellaneous: - Developed under Qt 5.14.2 (mingw) Win 10 Pro - Compatible to Qt5 with Webkit - tested with Win 10 Pro, Mac OS 10.15 Catalina, Ubuntu 16.04-18.04 - binary installer for windows: HDH_vX.Y.Z_setup.exe - installer for Mac OS X: HDH_vX.Y.Z_setup_MacOsX - AppImage for Linux-Ubuntu x64 LTS versions An alternative download method using Firefox is described under the following link: https://sourceforge.net/p/hathidownloadhelper/alternative/ E-Mail contact: hathidownloadhelper@hotmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hathidownloadhelperTool -
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Translation of Selected text or Clipboard contents powered by Google. HotKeys Paste/Change Text auto translated. View in Balloon/Window the result of translation, besides being sent to the clipboard. Screen Capture of Desktop/Game > OCR > Translated.
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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 -
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Visual Novel OCR help you to play visual novel in Japanese on PC. IF THIS LINK DOES NOT WORK OR STOPPED MIDWAY, USE GOOGLE LINK ON THE DEMO VIDEO DESCRIPTION: https://youtu.be/AdLwcU03230 If you have any questions, feel free to join our discord group: https://discord.gg/XFbWSjMHJh
