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eSearch vs Umi-OCR: catalog facts
eSearch	Umi-OCR
Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, Linux, Command line
OCR runs offline on the local machine Screenshot, recording and scrolling capture in one tool	Runs fully offline with a built-in OCR engine Screenshot, batch image and PDF recognition
Search and translation features depend on online services Much of the project material is in Chinese	No macOS build Documentation is primarily in Chinese, with English and Japanese READMEs
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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