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OCRFeederTesseract OCR
Free

Free and open source under the GPL-3.0-or-later licence.

 Free

Free and open source under the Apache licence.

Linux Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Automatic layout analysis separating text from graphics
  • Manual correction of text, boxes and paragraph styles
  • Over a hundred languages, with trainable models
  • Outputs searchable PDFs directly, not just text
  • Linux only
  • Its old wiki homepage has been retired
  • Accuracy depends heavily on image preprocessing you must do yourself
  • No interface of its own; it is a command line engine
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later License: Apache-2.0
No account needed Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 1, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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