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Tesseract alternatives for AI agents.

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Tesseract

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

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#1

Chineseocr Lite

Similarity 133Trust 100Excellent 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
#2

LunaTranslator

Similarity 133Trust 100Excellent 100

视觉小说翻译器 / Visual Novel Translator

12K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add HIllya51/LunaTranslator
#3

Tesseract.Js

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥

38K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add naptha/tesseract.js
#4

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

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

34K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
#5

Parsr

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

Transforms PDF, Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data

6.2K starsMar 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add axa-group/Parsr
#6

Ocrs

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

Rust library and CLI tool for OCR (extracting text from images)

1.8K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustOCR
$ npx skills add robertknight/ocrs
#7

MORT

Similarity 123Trust 100Excellent 100

MORT 번역기 프로젝트 - Real-time game translator with OCR

1.6K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#OCR
$ npx skills add killkimno/MORT
#8

React Native Executorch

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 98

Declarative way to run AI models in React Native on device, powered by ExecuTorch.

1.6K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add software-mansion/react-native-executorch
#9

Umi OCR

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 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
#10

ShareX

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

ShareX is a free and open-source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It also supports uploading images, text, and various file types to a wide range of destinations.

38K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#OCR
$ npx skills add ShareX/ShareX
#11

Opendataloader Pdf

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

PDF Parser for AI-ready data. Automate PDF accessibility. Open-source.

24K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaOCR
$ npx skills add opendataloader-project/opendataloader-pdf
#12

Pot Desktop

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

🌈一个跨平台的划词翻译和OCR软件 | A cross-platform software for text translation and recognition.

19K starsMay 25, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add pot-app/pot-desktop
#13

Unstructured

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

Convert documents to structured data effortlessly. Unstructured is open-source ETL solution for transforming complex documents into clean, structured formats for language models. Visit our website to learn more about our enterprise grade Platform product for production grade workflows, partitioning, enrichments, chunking and embedding.

15K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingHTMLOCR
$ npx skills add Unstructured-IO/unstructured
#14

Easydict

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

一个简洁优雅的词典翻译 macOS App。开箱即用,支持离线 OCR 识别,支持有道词典,🍎 苹果系统词典,🍎 苹果系统翻译,OpenAI,Gemini,DeepL,Google,Bing,腾讯,百度,阿里,小牛,彩云和火山翻译。A concise and elegant Dictionary and Translator macOS App for looking up words and translating text.

13K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdocument-processingSwiftOCR
$ npx skills add tisfeng/Easydict
#15

Ddddocr

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 99

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
#16

Chandra

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

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

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

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