OCR & Document Tools

Umi-OCR Plugins

github.com

The Umi-OCR plugin repository contains OCR engines and related components for Umi-OCR, with installation instructions and links to plugin releases.

2OCR

2ocr.com

2OCR is a free online OCR tool that converts images and PDF files into searchable PDF, PDF/A or text output. It accepts formats including jpg, png, tiff, bmp, heic, webp, pdf, doc and xls, requires no registration or email address, and supports multiple languages.

Capture2Text is a free, GPL-licensed Windows utility that OCRs a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut and saves the resulting text to the clipboard by default. It supports Windows 7, 8/8.1 and 10 and packages several OCR languages, with additional language dictionaries installable.

GLM-OCR

ocr.z.ai

GLM-OCR helps edit, convert, generate, search, or organize images and visual assets.

i2ocr

i2ocr.com

i2ocr is a free online OCR tool that extracts text from images and PDFs using AI-powered optical character recognition. It supports 128 languages and converts files into editable, searchable text. The service is accessible via its website.

ImageToText

imagetotext.info

ImageToText helps edit, convert, generate, search, or organize images and visual assets.

A free online OCR service that converts scanned documents and images into editable text. It requires no registration or software installation; users upload files and receive text. It is based on the Tesseract OCR engine and supports 122 recognition languages and fonts. After processing, text can be downloaded, edited in Google Docs or copied.

OCR.SPACE

ocr.space

OCR.space is a hosted online OCR service that converts images and PDF documents into editable text and can create searchable PDF files. It is free to use without registration, accepts JPG, PNG, GIF and PDF files, and supports multi-page documents and multi-column text. The free tier limits files to 5MB per document, and uploaded files and extracted text are deleted immediately after processing.

OCRTool

ocrtool.net

OCRTool.net is a free online OCR tool that extracts text from images, PDFs and screenshots using Mistral AI's OCR model. It supports JPG, PNG, WEBP, BMP, GIF and PDF files up to 20 MB per file, with multi-language recognition and layout-aware conversion. No signup is required, no watermarks are added, and files and extracted text are not stored.

OnlineOCR

onlineocr.net

OnlineOCR helps edit, convert, generate, search, or organize images and visual assets.

OnlineOCR

onlineocr.org

OnlineOCR is an online optical character recognition service that converts images and PDF files to text. It supports formats such as JPG, PNG, GIF, JFIF, HEIC and PDF, and offers simple OCR as free raw text recognition alongside a premium OCR mode for tables, lists and headings. The site lists more than 100 languages for recognition.

gImageReader

github.com

gImageReader is a Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr. It imports PDF documents and images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots, can process multiple images and documents at once, and recognizes text as plain text or hOCR documents. Recognized text is shown next to the image and can be post-processed with spellchecking.

Project Naptha

projectnaptha.com

Project Naptha is a browser-based tool that applies computer vision algorithms to images on web pages so text inside them can be highlighted, copied, edited and translated. The project page is a live demo showing text selection over words in an image. It was made by Kevin Kwok and Guillermo Webster.

NormCap

dynobo.github.io

NormCap is an OCR-powered screenshot tool that captures text instead of images. It uses Tesseract language models for text detection and supports QR and barcode scanning. Detection is performed on the device and no telemetry data is collected. It is available for Windows, macOS and Linux and is licensed under GPLv3.

Handwriting-OCR

github.com

Handwriting-OCR is a project that tries to create software for recognizing handwritten text from photos, including Czech language, using computer vision and machine learning. Recognition is divided into four steps, from page detection through word separation and normalization to character recognition. It is written in Python 3.6 with Jupyter Notebook, and the repository was archived by its owner.

ImageScanOCR

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ImageScanOCR is an application that recognizes text from images and PDF files using the Windows OCR API, converting images to editable plain text. Users can edit, copy and save results as plain text files, use batch processing, and rotate images. It supports multiple OCR languages when the Windows language pack is installed and can process OCR offline.

Normcap

github.com

Normcap is a code repository or project page with source code, releases, documentation, or setup notes.

tesseract

github.com

tesseract is a code repository or project page with source code, releases, documentation, or setup notes.

Text Grab

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Text Grab is a Windows tool that captures text with OCR, cleans it up and sends the result to the clipboard or an editor. All OCR runs on the device, with no internet connection, cloud service or per-use cost. It offers multiple capture modes, post-grab cleanup and spreadsheet-style editing, and can run as a background process with global hotkeys.

TextShot

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TextShot is a code repository or project page with source code, releases, documentation, or setup notes.

Umi-OCR

github.com

Umi-OCR is free, open-source offline OCR software for Windows 7 x64 and above. It supports screenshot capture and batch image import, PDF document recognition, and scanning or generating QR codes. It runs offline without a network connection and offers command-line and HTTP API calling methods.