Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.
Free Easy OCR Alternatives for Linux
Free Easy OCR is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Tesseract, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Free Easy OCR and ten of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Free Easy OCR are GImageReader, CopyFish, SikuliX and GOCR.
Alternatives list
30 Tesseract alternatives
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers.
A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Provides optical character recognition for Vietnamese and other languages supported by Tesseract.
CuneiForm (OpenOCR) is a text recognition software for printed templates. Manuscripts or PDF-files, the program can not recognize, however, but table structures. The language-model is applicable for 20 languages, and the results can be used as HTML, RTF or ASCII text to save, or...
OCRopus(tm) is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multilingual capabilities.
WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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