Open Source Tesseract AlternativesOCR Engines and other similar apps like Tesseract

The best open source alternative to Tesseract is OSS Document Scanner. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Tesseract and 12 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Tesseract are Open Scanner, gscan2pdf, EasyOCR and OCRopus.

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  1. gscan2pdf icon
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    gscan2pdf can scan, clean the scan and do OCR on the scan or imported images (incl. existing PDFs, DjVus or other file types), and make PDF and DjVu-files with embedded OCR-text. It works together with tesseract, ocropus, cuneiform an...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  2. EasyOCR icon
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    Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

    20 EasyOCR alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. OCRopus icon
     5 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Chandra icon
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    Chandra is a highly accurate OCR model that converts images and PDFs into structured HTML/Markdown/JSON while preserving layout information.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  5. CuneiForm icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. PaddleOCR icon
     1 like

    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.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  7. OCRMyScreen icon
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    OCRMyScreen is a small, focused utility that lets you capture text from anywhere on your screen, especially in places where normal copy-paste simply does not work. Instead of retyping error messages, one-time codes, or text inside images and locked UIs, you press a button, drag...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. GOCR icon
     7 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. MinerU icon
     1 like

    Free all-in-one document parsing tool. Accurate parsing, efficient extraction, providing a more fluent and accurate parsing experience.

    18 MinerU alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. OCRtoODT icon
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    OCRtoODT is a Qt6 desktop application built around a deterministic, inspectable OCR pipeline:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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