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Desktop app for OCR, PDF editing and converting scans into editable documents. A closed product from ABBYY.
| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PaddleOCR | Partial | 91k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | No | Python | v3.7.0 | 2026-09-16 |
| Tesseract | Partial | 77k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | No | C++ | 5.5.3 | 2026-09-28 |
| OCRmyPDF | Partial | 35k | MPL-2.0 | Open source | No | Python | v17.13.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| Surya | Partial | 21k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | No | Python | v0.22.1 | 2026-09-11 |
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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.
OCR for 100+ languages with layout and table recognition, as a Python library and CLI.
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
The OCR engine and a command line, without a document editor.
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
Adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs from the command line.
OCR, layout analysis, reading order, table recognition in 90+ languages
OCR, layout and reading-order detection in 90+ languages, from Python or a CLI.