GOCR is an optical character recognition program which is released under the GNU General Public License. It reads images in many formats and outputs a text file.
A simple graphical frontend written in Tcl/Tk and some sample files are provided.
Gocr is also able to recognize and translate barcodes.
Key Features
- Functions well with different frontends, or can be used as a standalone command-line tool.
- Handles single-column sans-serif fonts of 20–60 pixels in height.
- Image formats supported: PNM, PBM, PGM, PPM, PCX, and TGA.
- With the optional NetPBM installed, GOCR can support: PNG, JPG, TIFF, GIF and BMP.
- Using gzip and bzip2 GOCR handles: pnm.gz, pnm.bz2.
- No requirement to train the program, or store large font bases.
Website: jocr.sourceforge.net
Support:
Developer: Jörg Schulenburg
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
GOCR is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| OCR Systems | |
|---|---|
| Tesseract | High quality neural net (LSTM) based OCR engine focused on line recognition |
| EasyOCR | OCR that reads natural scene text and dense text in documents |
| ocrs | Modern OCR engine |
| Surya | Multilingual document OCR toolkit with text recognition |
| ocropy | Open source document analysis and OCR system |
| Ocrad | OCR engine based on a feature extraction method |
| Cuneiform | OCR Engine to convert OCR documents into editable form |
| GOCR | Reads images in many formats |
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| OCR Tools | |
|---|---|
| OCRmyPDF | Adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDFs using the unpaper utility |
| Paperwork | Simplify the management of your paperwork |
| OCRFeeder | Desktop OCR suite featuring a complete GTK graphical user interface |
| ocropy | Open source document analysis and OCR system |
| gImageReader | Simple Gtk/Qt front-end to Tesseract |
| gscan2pdf | GUI to produce PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents |
| lios | linux-intelligent-ocr-solution for converting print into text |
| hocr-tools | Manipulate and evaluate hOCR format |
| Skanpage | Simple scanning application optimized for multi-page document scanning |
| GOCR | Reads images in many formats |
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