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CRAFT Pytorch alternatives for AI agents.

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CRAFT Pytorch

Official implementation of Character Region Awareness for Text Detection (CRAFT)

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#1

Doctr

Similarity 139Trust 96Excellent 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
#2

CnSTD

Similarity 130Trust 86Strong 80

CnSTD: 基于 PyTorch/MXNet 的 中文/英文 场景文字检测(Scene Text Detection)、数学公式检测(Mathematical Formula Detection, MFD)、篇章分析(Layout Analysis)的Python3 包

792 starsMay 1, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add breezedeus/CnSTD
#3

DBNet.Pytorch

Similarity 128Trust 85Strong 70

A pytorch re-implementation of Real-time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization

1.0K starsDec 29, 2022 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add WenmuZhou/DBNet.pytorch
#4

Yomitoku

Similarity 127Trust 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
#5

Chineseocr Lite

Similarity 127Trust 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
#6

PaddleOCR

Similarity 126Trust 98Excellent 100

Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages.

82K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
#7

Umi OCR

Similarity 126Trust 93Excellent 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
#8

EasyOCR

Similarity 125Trust 93Excellent 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
#9

Keras Ocr

Similarity 125Trust 90Excellent 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
#10

Manga Image Translator

Similarity 124Trust 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
#11

X AnyLabeling

Similarity 124Trust 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
#12

Ddddocr

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 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
#13

PaddleOCR2Pytorch

Similarity 124Trust 89Strong 84

PaddleOCR inference in PyTorch. Converted from [PaddleOCR](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR)

1.2K starsSep 11, 2025 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add frotms/PaddleOCR2Pytorch
#14

Chandra

Similarity 124Trust 94Excellent 100

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

11K starsApr 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add datalab-to/chandra
#15

Text Detection Ctpn

Similarity 124Trust 85Strong 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
#16

Video Subtitle Extractor

Similarity 123Trust 93Excellent 100

视频硬字幕提取,生成srt文件。无需申请第三方API,本地实现文本识别。基于深度学习的视频字幕提取框架,包含字幕区域检测、字幕内容提取。A GUI tool for extracting hard-coded subtitle (hardsub) from videos and generating srt files.

9.0K starsApr 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add YaoFANGUK/video-subtitle-extractor

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