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What are the best OCR libraries?
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Best OCR libraries
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Tesseract
Free
Windows, Linux, Mac
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gocr
Free
Windows, Linux, OS/2
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Copyfish
Free / paid
Windows
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OCR.Space
Free
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ABBYY FineReader
Paid
Windows, Linux, Mac
Seven Segment recognitioon
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Tesseract
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Tesseract
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Tesseract
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Understands 40 languages
A full list of languages can be found here.
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Steets's Experience
Excellent text recognition with a wide library of available training data to tailor the program's character recognition to your needs.
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Windows, Linux, Mac
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Free, open source and cross-platform
Tesseract is licensed under the Apache with source code available on GitHub. It's available for free on Windows, Linux and OSX.
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CleverNechtan's Experience
requires ndk in android and compiling is slow
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Multiple front-ends available
Multiple GUIs have been developed for Tesseract, including OCRFeeder.
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Can work with custom training data
By inputting custom .traineddata files, Tesseract can adapt to different styles of text accurately.
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gocr
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gocr
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gocr
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Can be used with different frontends
Since GOCR is compatible with multiple different frontends, it can be very easy to port it to different operating systems.
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Free
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Positive reviews
Positive reviews on SourceForge.
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Copyfish
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Copyfish
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Copyfish
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Scripting API
With the SeeShell scripting API you can access SeeShell’s web automation functionality from any programming language that supports COM. Whether using VBS, PowerShell, C#, Visual Basic, Python, Java or any other programming or scripting language that runs on Windows.
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OCR.Space
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OCR.Space
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OCR.Space
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API
Free API available, can be used for free up to 25000 requests per month.
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RickZeeland's Experience
Free OCR software and web service to extract text from image files and PDF.
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C# (Visual Studio Project)
Ready-to-use C# project for using the OCR API on GitHub.
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Free
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ABBYY FineReader
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ABBYY FineReader
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ABBYY FineReader
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Proprietary
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SDK
An SDK for text recognition, PDF conversion, and data capture is available.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
Android version:
Seven Segment recognitioon
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Paid
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Cassini Technology Consulting
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Cassini Technology Consulting
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Cassini Technology Consulting
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DecentLofn's Experience
This solution is built using a ML enabled OCR engine that works very well with SAP
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Iron
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Iron
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Iron
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Very expensive for individual usage
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Understands over 120 languages
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Not Open-Source
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Cross-Platform
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