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PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages.

Stack

Python Android FastAPI pytest Vite CMake CocoaPods Go modules

GitHub topics

#ai4science #chineseocr #document-parsing #document-translation #kie #ocr

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-05-08
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 261 open

92,461

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Forks: 11,636
Commits: 6,927 commits
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tesseract-ocr/tesseract

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #lstm #machine-learning #ocr #ocr-engine #tesseract

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2007-03-06
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 492 open

77,420

stars

Forks: 10,907
Commits: 6,804 commits
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naptha/tesseract.js

Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#deep-learning #javascript #ocr #tesseract #webassembly

Updated: 2026-05-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-06-26
History: 38 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 60 open

38,827

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Forks: 2,403
Commits: 846 commits
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ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF

OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

Stack

Python pytest Streamlit uv

GitHub topics

#image-processing #ocr #pdf #python #tesseract

Updated: 2026-11-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-04-09
History: 7 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 64 open

35,273

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Forks: 2,449
Commits: 4,629 commits
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baidu/Unlimited-OCR

Unlimited OCR Works: Welcome the Era of One-shot Long-horizon Parsing.

Stack

Python

Updated: 2026-11-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-06-22
History: 131 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 94 open

30,987

stars

Forks: 3,315
Commits: 33 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +573 +1.9%
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JaidedAI/EasyOCR

Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

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Python pip

GitHub topics

#cnn #crnn #data-mining #deep-learning #easyocr #image-processing

Updated: 2025-12-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-14
History: 12 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 535 open

30,135

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Forks: 3,618
Commits: 619 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +7 0.0%
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microsoft/unilm

Large-scale Self-supervised Pre-training Across Tasks, Languages, and Modalities

Stack

Python Flask Gradio pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#beit #beit-3 #bitnet #deepnet #document-ai #foundation-models

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-07-23
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 691 open

22,242

stars

Forks: 2,701
Commits: 1,250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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allenai/olmocr

Toolkit for linearizing PDFs for LLM datasets/training

Stack

Python Flask pytest PEP 517

Updated: 2026-03-25
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2024-09-17
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 92 open

19,818

stars

Forks: 1,653
Commits: 2,126 commits
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kaldi-asr/kaldi

kaldi-asr/kaldi is the official location of the Kaldi project.

Stack

Shell CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cuda #kaldi #shell #speaker-id #speaker-verification

Updated: 2025-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-05-14
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 262 open

15,513

stars

Forks: 5,340
Commits: 9,408 commits
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zai-org/GLM-OCR

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

AI dev

Stack

Python FastAPI Flask pytest React npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#glm #image2text #ocr

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-02-02
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 69 open

7,585

stars

Forks: 677
Commits: 111 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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mindee/doctr

docTR (Document Text Recognition) - a seamless, high-performing & accessible library for OCR-related tasks powered by Deep Learning. Ongoing development and maintenance by t2k.

Stack

Python FastAPI pytest PEP 517 pip uv

GitHub topics

#deep-learning #document-parsing #document-recognition #documentai #layout-analysis #ocr

Updated: 2026-11-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-08
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 19 open

6,425

stars

Forks: 691
Commits: 1,141 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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grobidOrg/grobid

A machine learning software for extracting information from scholarly documents

Stack

Java Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#bibliographical-references #crf #deep-learning #fulltext #hamburger-to-cow #machine-learning

Updated: 2026-11-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-13
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 300 open

5,221

stars

Forks: 574
Commits: 4,228 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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open-mmlab/mmocr

OpenMMLab Text Detection, Recognition and Understanding Toolbox

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#abcnet #abinet #crnn #dbnet #deep-learning #fcenet

Updated: 2024-11-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-02
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 194 open

4,746

stars

Forks: 778
Commits: 1,139 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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wooorm/franc

Natural language detection

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#classification #classify #detect #detection #javascript #language

Updated: 2024-06-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-19
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

4,421

stars

Forks: 181
Commits: 392 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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clovaai/deep-text-recognition-benchmark

Text recognition (optical character recognition) with deep learning methods, ICCV 2019

Stack

Jupyter Notebook

GitHub topics

#crnn #deep-learning #grcnn #iccv2019 #ocr #ocr-recognition

Updated: 2024-03-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-03
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 244 open

3,934

stars

Forks: 1,126
Commits: 148 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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atlanhq/camelot

Camelot: PDF Table Extraction for Humans

Archived

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#extract #for-humans #pdf #table

Updated: 2023-01-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-18
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 117 open

3,706

stars

Forks: 360
Commits: 446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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Belval/TextRecognitionDataGenerator

A synthetic data generator for text recognition

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#data #dataset #fake #ocr #synthetic #text

Updated: 2024-07-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-01
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 165 open

3,698

stars

Forks: 1,010
Commits: 156 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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aim-uofa/AdelaiDet

AdelaiDet is an open source toolbox for multiple instance-level detection and recognition tasks.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#abcnet #adelaidet #blendmask #boxinst #condinst #densecl

Updated: 2024-08-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-23
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 310 open

3,479

stars

Forks: 653
Commits: 443 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ocropus-archive/DUP-ocropy

Python-based tools for document analysis and OCR

Archived

Stack

Jupyter Notebook pip

Updated: 2021-05-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-03-03
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 83 open

3,460

stars

Forks: 587
Commits: 998 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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eragonruan/text-detection-ctpn

text detection mainly based on ctpn model in tensorflow, id card detect, connectionist text proposal network

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#ctpn #id-card #ocr #robust-reading #tensorflow #text-detection

Updated: 2023-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-09-20
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 290 open

3,428

stars

Forks: 1,305
Commits: 61 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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clovaai/CRAFT-pytorch

Official implementation of Character Region Awareness for Text Detection (CRAFT)

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#craft #curved-text #cvpr2019 #detection #ocr #ocr-detection

Updated: 2024-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-04
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 115 open

3,410

stars

Forks: 919
Commits: 11 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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otiai10/gosseract

Go package for OCR (Optical Character Recognition), by using Tesseract C++ library

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#go #ocr #ocr-server #tesseract #tesseract-ocr

Updated: 2026-01-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-11
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

3,143

stars

Forks: 303
Commits: 540 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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argman/EAST

A tensorflow implementation of EAST text detector

Stack

C++ Flask pip

GitHub topics

#deep-learning #ocr #tensorflow #text-detection

Updated: 2022-11-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-31
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 264 open

3,058

stars

Forks: 1,034
Commits: 62 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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xiaofengShi/CHINESE-OCR

End-to-end Chinese scene-text detection and recognition with CTPN, CRNN, and CTC (legacy project).

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#chinese-ocr #crnn #ctpn #keras-crnn #legacy-project #lstm-ctc

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-14
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 155 open

2,959

stars

Forks: 940
Commits: 27 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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microsoft/table-transformer

Table Transformer (TATR) is a deep learning model for extracting tables from unstructured documents (PDFs and images). This is also the official repository for the PubTables-1M dataset and GriTS evaluation metric.

Archived

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#table-detection #table-extraction #table-functional-analysis #table-structure-recognition

Updated: 2024-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-17
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 111 open

2,948

stars

Forks: 324
Commits: 195 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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YCG09/chinese_ocr

CTPN + DenseNet + CTC based end-to-end Chinese OCR implemented using tensorflow and keras

Stack

Python pip

Updated: 2019-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-16
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 266 open

2,778

stars

Forks: 1,062
Commits: 13 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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MhLiao/DB

A PyTorch implementation of "Real-time Scene Text Detection with Differentiable Binarization".

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#dbnet #scene-text-detection

Updated: 2024-03-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-18
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 203 open

2,269

stars

Forks: 486
Commits: 53 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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githubharald/SimpleHTR

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system implemented with TensorFlow.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#deep-learning #handwritten-text-recognition #machine-learning #ocr #recurrent-neural-networks #tensorflow

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-13
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

2,193

stars

Forks: 912
Commits: 124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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koth/kcws

Deep Learning Chinese Word Segment

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#chinese-text-segmentation #deep-learning #nlp #pos-tagger #tensorflow

Updated: 2018-05-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-25
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 44 open

2,069

stars

Forks: 626
Commits: 88 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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scantailor/scantailor

No description.

Archived

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2020-11-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-13
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

1,801

stars

Forks: 325
Commits: 989 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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