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9 Best Free and Open Source OCR Screen Capture Tools

July 15, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images.

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OCR Tools

OCR4Linux – text extraction tool

July 14, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Graphics

OCR4Linux is a text extraction tool that captures a selected screen area, performs OCR, and copies the extracted text to the clipboard.

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OCR Tools

Mark Shot – screenshot and annotation tool

July 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Graphics, GUI

Mark Shot is a high-performance screenshot and annotation tool built with Qt 6. It supports Linux desktops running Wayland or X11.

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OCR Tools

12 Best Free and Open Source OCR Systems

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

We pick out useful OCR systems.

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OpenOCR – toolkit for general OCR research and applications

July 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

OpenOCR focuses on text detection and recognition, formula and table recognition, and document parsing and understanding.

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RapidOCR – OCR toolkit

July 3, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

RapidOCR is an OCR toolkit designed for fast offline deployment across multiple platforms and programming languages.

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kraken – turn-key automatic text recognition system

July 2, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

kraken is a turn-key automatic text recognition system optimized for historical and non-Latin script material.

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11 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools

April 7, 2026 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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PaddleOCR – OCR and document-parsing toolkit

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

PaddleOCR is an open-source OCR and document-parsing toolkit. It’s used to extract text and document structure from images and PDFs.

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OCR Tools

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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OCR Tools

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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OCR Tools

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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OCR Tools

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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OCR Tools

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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OCR Tools

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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OCR Tools

TextShot – Python tool for grabbing text via screenshot

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

TextShot offers the ability to take a screenshot and copy to the clipboard the text content of the screenshot. It’s free and open source.

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OCR Tools

TextSnatcher – perform OCR operations

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

TextSnatcher is a simple front-end that lets you copy text from images. It uses the Tesseract OCR 4.x for the character recognition.

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OCR Tools

Tesseract – optical character recognition engine

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Tesseract runs from the command line. It can only process an image of a single column and create text from it.

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OCRFeeder – document layout analysis and optical character recognition system

October 13, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

OCRFeeder is a free open source software desktop OCR suite for the GNOME desktop environment. It features a GTK+ graphical user interface.

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