This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images. We only feature open source software here.
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Tag: optical character recognition
8 Best Free and Open Source OCR Systems
Optical Character Recognition is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into editable documents.
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9 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents.
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Machine Learning in Linux: ocrs – modern OCR engine
ocrs is a Rust library and CLI tool for extracting text from images, also known as OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
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Machine Learning in Linux: EasyOCR – OCR that reads natural scene text and dense text in documents
EasyOCR is a Python module for extracting text from images.
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Machine Learning in Linux: Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit adds text recognition
Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.
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Surya – multilingual document OCR toolkit
Surya is billed as a multilingual document OCR toolkit. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.
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Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.
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Excellent Utilities: Paperwork – personal document manager
Paperwork is designed to simplify the management of your paperwork. The software lets you scan or import your documents, and quickly find what you want, wrapped together in a GTK interface.
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