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CTPN alternatives for AI agents.

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CTPN

Detecting Text in Natural Image with Connectionist Text Proposal Network (ECCV'16)

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#1

Tesseract.Js

Similarity 128Trust 95Excellent 100

Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥

38K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add naptha/tesseract.js
#2

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
#3

Keras Ocr

Similarity 127Trust 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
#4

LunaTranslator

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

视觉小说翻译器 / Visual Novel Translator

12K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add HIllya51/LunaTranslator
#5

Ddddocr

Similarity 126Trust 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
#6

Chandra

Similarity 126Trust 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
#7

Text Detection Ctpn

Similarity 126Trust 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
#8

Doctr

Similarity 125Trust 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
#9

STranslate

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

A ready-to-go translation ocr tool developed with WPF/WPF 开发的一款即用即走的翻译、OCR工具

7.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#OCR
$ npx skills add STranslate/STranslate
#10

EAST

Similarity 125Trust 83Strong 75

A tensorflow implementation of EAST text detector

3.1K starsNov 22, 2022 pushdocument-processingC++OCR
$ npx skills add argman/EAST
#11

GLM OCR

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 100

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

7.0K starsApr 21, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonOCR
$ npx skills add zai-org/GLM-OCR
#12

Normcap

Similarity 123Trust 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
#13

Gosseract

Similarity 123Trust 92Excellent 96

Go package for OCR (Optical Character Recognition), by using Tesseract C++ library

3.1K starsJan 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoOCR
$ npx skills add otiai10/gosseract
#14

Translumo

Similarity 122Trust 92Excellent 91

Advanced real-time screen translator for games, hardcoded subtitles in videos, static text and etc.

5.4K starsNov 25, 2025 pushdocument-processingC#OCR
$ npx skills add ramjke/Translumo
#15

TRex

Similarity 122Trust 92Excellent 100

Copy any text on your screen, stop retyping.

1.8K starsJun 2, 2026 pushdocument-processingSwiftOCR
$ npx skills add amebalabs/TRex
#16

OCRmyPDF

Similarity 122Trust 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

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