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Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.
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An on-premises, OCR-free unstructured data extraction, markdown conversion and benchmarking toolkit. (https://idp-leaderboard.org/)
A collection of original, innovative ideas and algorithms towards Advanced Literate Machinery. This project is maintained by the OCR Team in the Language Technology Lab, Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group.
$ npx skills add AlibabaResearch/AdvancedLiterateMachineryOpenOCR: An Open-Source Toolkit for General-OCR Research and Applications, integrates a unified training and evaluation benchmark, commercial-grade OCR and Document Parsing systems, and faithful reproductions of the core implementations from a wide range of academic papers.
$ npx skills add Topdu/OpenOCRTesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
$ npx skills add tesseract-ocr/tesseractTransforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.
$ npx skills add opendatalab/MinerUHandwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system implemented with TensorFlow.
$ npx skills add githubharald/SimpleHTRTurn 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.
$ npx skills add PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCROCR 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。
$ npx skills add hiroi-sora/Umi-OCRReady-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
$ npx skills add JaidedAI/EasyOCRPDF craft can convert PDF files into various other formats. This project will focus on processing PDF files of scanned books.
$ npx skills add oomol-lab/pdf-craftThe official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.
$ npx skills add bytedance/DolphinTranslate manga/image 一键翻译各类图片内文字 https://cotrans.touhou.ai/ (no longer working)
$ npx skills add zyddnys/manga-image-translatorEffortless data labeling with AI support from Segment Anything and other awesome models.
$ npx skills add CVHub520/X-AnyLabeling带带弟弟 通用验证码识别OCR pypi版
$ npx skills add sml2h3/ddddocrOCR model that handles complex tables, forms, handwriting with full layout.
$ npx skills add datalab-to/chandra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.
$ npx skills add YaoFANGUK/video-subtitle-extractordocTR (Document Text Recognition) - a seamless, high-performing & accessible library for OCR-related tasks powered by Deep Learning.
$ npx skills add mindee/doctrHow to choose
Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Docext if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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