Cuneiform is a multi-language, open source optical character recognition system originally developed by Cognitive Technologies.
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Tag: OCR
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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NAPS2 – document scanning application
NAPS2 scans and organises documents with OCR, scanner profiles, batch operations, searchable PDFs and command-line automation.
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Mayan EDMS – enterprise document management system
Mayan EDMS manages business documents with OCR, metadata, powerful access controls, versioning, configurable workflows and full-text search.
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pdf-compress – monochrome PDF compression
pdf-compress reduces scanned PDFs to monochrome, preserves or adds searchable text, adjusts thresholds and checks prior processing.
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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 OCR
OCRFeeder analyses document layouts, recognises text with OCR engines, edits recognition regions and exports editable files.
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OCRopus – document analysis and OCR toolkit
OCRopus (ocropy) processes scanned text with layout analysis, neural line recognition and training tools for OCR workflows.
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gscan2pdf – scan documents to PDF and DjVu
gscan2pdf scans and edits document pages, performs OCR and saves multipage PDF, DjVu or TIFF files with metadata support.
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gImageReader – graphical Tesseract frontend
gImageReader extracts text from scans, images and PDFs using Tesseract, with editable recognition areas and searchable PDF output.
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Lios – accessible OCR and document reader
Lios converts documents and camera images into text with OCR, speech output, page rotation, accessibility and proofreading tools.
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hocr-tools – manipulate and evaluate OCR results
hocr-tools checks, merges, splits and evaluates hOCR documents, extracts recognised text and creates searchable PDFs from scans.
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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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GOCR – optical character recognition software
GOCR recognises printed text in scanned images using pattern-based OCR and exports text through a command-line interface.
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Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.
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Excellent Utilities: Paperwork – personal document manager
Paperwork is designed to simplify the management of your paperwork. The software lets you scan or import your documents, and quickly find what you want, wrapped together in a GTK interface.
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