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EAST alternatives for AI agents.

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#1

Chineseocr Lite

Similarity 141Trust 98Excellent 100

超轻量级中文ocr,支持竖排文字识别, 支持ncnn、mnn、tnn推理 ( dbnet(1.8M) + crnn(2.5M) + anglenet(378KB)) 总模型仅4.7M

12K starsMay 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add DayBreak-u/chineseocr_lite
#2

LunaTranslator

Similarity 140Trust 95Excellent 100

视觉小说翻译器 / Visual Novel Translator

12K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add HIllya51/LunaTranslator
#3

SimpleHTR

Similarity 137Trust 89Excellent 95

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system implemented with TensorFlow.

2.2K starsJan 31, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add githubharald/SimpleHTR
#4

Tesseract.Js

Similarity 136Trust 95Excellent 100

Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥

38K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add naptha/tesseract.js
#5

Tesseract

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 100

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

75K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add tesseract-ocr/tesseract
#6

Doctr

Similarity 133Trust 97Excellent 100

docTR (Document Text Recognition) - a seamless, high-performing & accessible library for OCR-related tasks powered by Deep Learning.

6.1K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add mindee/doctr
#7

Text Detection Ctpn

Similarity 133Trust 82Strong 76

text detection mainly based on ctpn model in tensorflow, id card detect, connectionist text proposal network

3.4K starsOct 3, 2023 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add eragonruan/text-detection-ctpn
#8

Yomitoku

Similarity 129Trust 91Excellent 98

YomiTokuはAIを活用した日本語文書解析エンジンを提供するPythonパッケージです。 Yomitoku is an AI-powered document image analysis package designed specifically for the Japanese language.

1.5K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add kotaro-kinoshita/yomitoku
#9

PaddleOCR Json

Similarity 129Trust 81Strong 72

OCR离线图片文字识别命令行windows程序,以JSON字符串形式输出结果,方便别的程序调用。提供各种语言API。由 PaddleOCR C++ 编译。

1.5K starsApr 7, 2025 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add hiroi-sora/PaddleOCR-json
#10

Captcha Trainer

Similarity 128Trust 89Excellent 88

[验证码识别-训练] This project is based on CNN/ResNet/DenseNet+GRU/LSTM+CTC/CrossEntropy to realize verification code identification. This project is only for training the model.

3.2K starsNov 9, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add kerlomz/captcha_trainer
#11

EasyOCR

Similarity 127Trust 91Excellent 100

Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

30K starsDec 5, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add JaidedAI/EasyOCR
#12

Keras Ocr

Similarity 127Trust 89Excellent 85

A packaged and flexible version of the CRAFT text detector and Keras CRNN recognition model.

1.5K starsSep 22, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add faustomorales/keras-ocr
#13

Manga Image Translator

Similarity 126Trust 98Excellent 100

Translate manga/image 一键翻译各类图片内文字 https://cotrans.touhou.ai/ (no longer working)

10K starsMay 24, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add zyddnys/manga-image-translator
#14

Caffe Ocr

Similarity 126Trust 75Promising 66

主流ocr算法研究实验性的项目,目前实现了CNN+BLSTM+CTC架构

1.3K starsJun 13, 2020 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add senlinuc/caffe_ocr
#15

X AnyLabeling

Similarity 126Trust 97Excellent 100

Effortless data labeling with AI support from Segment Anything and other awesome models.

9.4K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add CVHub520/X-AnyLabeling
#16

Swift AI

Similarity 126Trust 80Strong 78

The Swift machine learning library.

6.0K starsMay 3, 2017 pushdocument-processingSwiftOCR
$ npx skills add Swift-AI/Swift-AI

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