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Kraken alternatives for AI agents.

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OCR engine for all the languages

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#1

Doctr

Similarity 131Trust 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

Tesserocr

Similarity 128Trust 88Excellent 99

A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API

2.2K starsMar 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add sirfz/tesserocr
#3

MinerU

Similarity 128Trust 94Excellent 100

Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.

68K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerU
#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

SimpleHTR

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 95

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system implemented with TensorFlow.

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

PdfPig

Similarity 125Trust 93Excellent 100

Read and extract text and other content from PDFs in C# (port of PDFBox)

2.5K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#PDF
$ npx skills add UglyToad/PdfPig
#10

Dolphin

Similarity 125Trust 91Excellent 100

The official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.

9.0K starsMar 25, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add bytedance/Dolphin
#11

Layout Parser

Similarity 125Trust 86Strong 78

A Unified Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image Analysis

5.7K starsAug 15, 2024 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add Layout-Parser/layout-parser
#12

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
#13

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
#14

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
#15

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
#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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