Awesome OCR
A curated list of awesome open-source OCR software, libraries, datasets, and literature.
What is Awesome OCR?
Awesome OCR is a curated GitHub repository listing open-source software, libraries, datasets, and literature related to Optical Character Recognition. It provides a centralized resource for developers and researchers working on text extraction from images and scanned documents, covering engines, tools, training data, and academic references.
Developers, data scientists, researchers, and digital humanists who need to implement, evaluate, or improve OCR systems using open-source tools and datasets.
It saves significant time by aggregating and categorizing a vast array of OCR resources—from production-ready engines like Tesseract to niche datasets for historical scripts—in a single, community-vetted list, eliminating the need to scour the internet for reliable tools and research materials.
Overview
Links to awesome OCR projects
Use Cases
Best For
- Finding open-source OCR engines and libraries for a specific programming language
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