Alternatives

Aster alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Recognizing cropped text in natural images.

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#1

Ddddocr

Similarity 140Trust 91Excellent 100

带带弟弟 通用验证码识别OCR pypi版

14K starsMar 10, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add sml2h3/ddddocr
#2

Chandra

Similarity 140Trust 93Excellent 100

OCR model that handles complex tables, forms, handwriting with full layout.

11K starsApr 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add datalab-to/chandra
#3

GLM OCR

Similarity 139Trust 92Excellent 100

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

7.0K starsApr 21, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add zai-org/GLM-OCR
#4

MixTeX Latex OCR

Similarity 137Trust 85Strong 72

MixTeX multimodal LaTeX, ZhEn, and, Table OCR. It performs efficient CPU-based inference in a local offline on Windows.

1.6K starsApr 24, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add RQLuo/MixTeX-Latex-OCR
#5

Normcap

Similarity 137Trust 89Excellent 100

OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images

2.6K starsMay 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add dynobo/normcap
#6

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 136Trust 98Excellent 100

OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

34K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
#7

Tesserocr

Similarity 136Trust 88Excellent 99

A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API

2.2K starsMar 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add sirfz/tesserocr
#8

Llm Aided Ocr

Similarity 136Trust 88Excellent 95

Enhances Tesseract OCR output using LLMs (local or API) for error correction, smart chunking, and markdown formatting of scanned PDFs

2.9K starsMar 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr
#9

Donut

Similarity 135Trust 86Strong 79

Official Implementation of OCR-free Document Understanding Transformer (Donut) and Synthetic Document Generator (SynthDoG), ECCV 2022

6.9K starsJul 11, 2024 pushdocument-processingPythonDocument AI
$ npx skills add clovaai/donut
#10

Yomitoku

Similarity 135Trust 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
#11

CRNN Chinese Characters Rec

Similarity 135Trust 75Promising 68

(CRNN) Chinese Characters Recognition.

1.9K starsNov 13, 2022 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add Sierkinhane/CRNN_Chinese_Characters_Rec
#12

SimpleHTR

Similarity 135Trust 89Excellent 95

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system implemented with TensorFlow.

2.2K starsJan 31, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add githubharald/SimpleHTR
#13

Captcha Trainer

Similarity 134Trust 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
#14

Pdf Craft

Similarity 133Trust 97Excellent 100

PDF craft can convert PDF files into various other formats. This project will focus on processing PDF files of scanned books.

5.8K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add oomol-lab/pdf-craft
#15

Umi OCR

Similarity 133Trust 91Excellent 100

OCR software, free and offline. 开源、免费的离线OCR软件。支持截屏/批量导入图片,PDF文档识别,排除水印/页眉页脚,扫描/生成二维码。内置多国语言库。

45K starsNov 20, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add hiroi-sora/Umi-OCR
#16

Keras Ocr

Similarity 133Trust 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

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