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Layout analysis software, that divide scanned documents into zones suitable for OCR; Graphical interfaces to one or more OCR engines; Software development kits that are used to add OCR capabilities to other software (e.g. forms processing applications, document imaging management systems, e-discovery systems, records management solutions)
Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. [5] It is free software, released under the Apache License. [1] [6] [7] Originally developed by Hewlett-Packard as proprietary software in the 1980s, it was released as open source in 2005 and development was sponsored by Google in 2006.
In this mode OCRFeeder uses the default OCR engine, which the user can set in the application's preferences. [13] [14] The program is written in Python and uses the GTK+ library (using PyGTK). [12] It acts as a graphical front-end for other existing tools. For example, it does not make actual character recognition itself, but uses external ...
Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and ...
hocr-tools is an open source library written in Python. It has a command-line utility attached in the scripts called hocr-pdf that enables us to convert standard hocr files to a searchable PDF file. It is also worth noting that the version for dealing with hocr files in RTL or non- Latin scripts like Arabic , we need to use the GitHub ...
Asprise OCR is a commercial optical character recognition and barcode recognition SDK library that provides an API to recognize text as well as barcodes from images (in formats like JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PDF, etc.) and output in formats like plain text, XML and searchable PDF. Asprise OCR has been in active development since 1997.
Open-source, cross-platform C library to generate PDF files. OpenPDF: GNU LGPLv3 / MPLv2.0: Open source library to create and manipulate PDF files in Java. Fork of an older version of iText, but with the original LGPL / MPL license. PDFsharp: MIT C# developer library to create, extract, edit PDF files. Poppler: GNU GPL
OCRopus is a free document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) system released under the Apache License v2.0 with a very modular design using command-line interfaces. OCRopus is developed under the lead of Thomas Breuel from the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Kaiserslautern, Germany and was sponsored by Google.