Top #ocr Tools & Software

PaddleOCR

github

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.

MinerU

github

Transforms complex documents like PDFs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.

Umi-OCR

github

OCR software, free and offline. 开源、免费的离线OCR软件。支持截屏/批量导入图片，PDF文档识别，排除水印/页眉页脚，扫描/生成二维码。内置多国语言库。

paperless-ngx

github

A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents

OCRmyPDF

github

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

EasyOCR

github

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