Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents.
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Tag: OCR
Rescribe – desktop tool for performing OCR
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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TextShot – Python tool for grabbing text via screenshot
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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TextSnatcher – perform OCR operations
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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Tesseract – optical character recognition engine
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
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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OCRopus – Python-based tools for document analysis and OCR
ocropy (referred to as OCRopus) is an OCR system written in Python, NumPy, and SciPy focusing on the use of large scale machine learning.
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gscan2pdf – GUI to produce PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents
gscan2pdf is a graphical user interface to produce PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents. gscan2pdf is free and open source software.
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gImageReader – simple Gtk/Qt front-end to Tesseract
gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to Tesseract, a popular optical character recognition engine. Free and open source.
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Lios – ocr software
linux-intelligent-ocr-solution (Lios) is a free and open source software for converting print into text using either a scanner or a camera.
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hocr-tools – manipulate and evaluate hOCR format
hocr-tools is a set of tools for manipulating and evaluating the hOCR format for representing multi-lingual OCR results.
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Ocrad – OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software based on a feature extraction method
Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program based on a feature extraction method. Free and open source software.
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