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Donut alternatives for AI agents.

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

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#1

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
#2

Ddddocr

Similarity 134Trust 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
#3

Chandra

Similarity 134Trust 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
#4

Pdf Craft

Similarity 133Trust 96Excellent 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
#5

GLM OCR

Similarity 133Trust 92Excellent 100

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

7.0K starsApr 21, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add zai-org/GLM-OCR
#6

MixTeX Latex OCR

Similarity 132Trust 86Strong 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
#7

Deepdoctection

Similarity 131Trust 89Excellent 100

A Repo For Document AI

3.2K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add deepdoctection/deepdoctection
#8

Rpaframework

Similarity 131Trust 96Excellent 100

Collection of open-source libraries and tools for Robotic Process Automation (RPA), designed to be used with both Robot Framework and Python

1.5K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add robocorp/rpaframework
#9

Normcap

Similarity 131Trust 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
#10

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
#11

Llm Aided Ocr

Similarity 129Trust 87Excellent 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
#12

SimpleHTR

Similarity 129Trust 90Excellent 95

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system implemented with TensorFlow.

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

LiLT

Similarity 129Trust 75Needs review 52

Official PyTorch implementation of LiLT: A Simple yet Effective Language-Independent Layout Transformer for Structured Document Understanding (ACL 2022)

366 starsOct 31, 2022 pushdocument-processingPythonDocument AI
$ npx skills add jpWang/LiLT
#14

Tesserocr

Similarity 129Trust 88Excellent 95

A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API

2.2K starsMar 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add sirfz/tesserocr
#15

Captcha Trainer

Similarity 129Trust 90Excellent 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
#16

Retain Pdf

Similarity 129Trust 92Excellent 100

在保留版面、公式与结构的前提下进行 PDF 翻译,适用于科研与技术文档

2.0K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonDocument AI
$ npx skills add wxyhgk/retain-pdf

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