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OCR-Systems

10 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents.

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Rescribe – desktop tool for performing OCR

November 27, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Rescribe is an easy-to-use desktop tool for performing OCR on image files, PDFs and Google Books.

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6 Best Free and Open Source OCR Screen Capture Tools

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images. We only feature open source software here.

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dpScreenOCR – software to recognize text on screen

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

dpScreenOCR is a program to recognize text on the screen. Powered by Tesseract, it supports more than 100 languages.

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8 Best Free and Open Source OCR Systems

March 17, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

Optical Character Recognition is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into editable documents.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit adds text recognition

February 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

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Cuneiform – OCR system

February 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Cuneiform is a multi-language, open source optical character recognition system originally developed by Cognitive Technologies.

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Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit

January 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Reviews

Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.

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NormCap – OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

NormCap is an OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images. Free and open source software.

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Frog – intuitive text extraction tool (OCR) for GNOME

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Frog is an intuitive text extraction tool for the GNOME desktop. Frog is free and open source software written in Python.

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