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OCR (optical character recognition)

Tesseract is an open-source OCR engine (C++, Apache-2.0) that extracts text from images using LSTM-based and legacy engines, supporting over 100 languages and multiple output formats.

AI agent harness engineering / education

An open-source Chinese textbook/tutorial that teaches building a Pi-style coding agent from scratch through 15 executable checkpoints in TypeScript.

AI coding agent / terminal CLI

Terminal-based AI coding agent that autonomously writes and edits code using OpenAI models.

agent harness / multi-agent orchestration

DeerFlow is an open-source Python super-agent harness that orchestrates sub-agents, memory, sandboxes, and tools to autonomously execute long-horizon research, coding, and creation tasks.

AI ebook/document translation

A Python command-line tool that uses AI translation APIs to generate bilingual epub/txt/md/srt/pdf books.

image-to-3D / procedural Three.js generation

Rebuilds an object in a reference image as a code-only, procedural, animation-ready Three.js model using AI agents.

document OCR / layout-aware extraction

Chandra OCR converts images and PDFs into structured HTML/Markdown/JSON with layout preservation, handling complex tables, forms, and handwriting.

AI coding agent / terminal-based coding assistant

OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that runs in the terminal, offering an interactive CLI for coding tasks.

video editing

OpenCut is an open-source, cross-platform video editor (CapCut alternative) for web, desktop, and mobile, with a rewrite underway.

desktop offline OCR

Umi-OCR is a free, open-source offline desktop OCR application supporting screenshot recognition, batch image recognition, PDF recognition, QR codes, and formula recognition.

database client / management

Lightweight cross-platform database client for 90+ databases with desktop GUI, CLI, Docker, AI assistant, and MCP server.

LLM application development / AI agents

Eino is an LLM application development framework in Go that offers reusable components, an agent development kit, and graph-based composition for building AI applications.

object detection / instance segmentation

A PyTorch implementation of Mask R-CNN for object detection and instance segmentation, with custom dataset training and multi-GPU support.

neural text-to-speech / speech synthesis

TensorVox is a C++/Qt desktop application that runs neural text-to-speech models via ONNX Runtime for real-time, user-friendly speech synthesis.

AI presentation/slide generation

SlideBot AI is a web platform that turns a topic, outline, or uploaded document into a finished slide deck using LLM planning plus Gemini image generation, with editing and ZIP/PDF export.

interactive geospatial mapping/analysis in Jupyter

A Python package for interactive mapping and geospatial analysis with minimal coding in Jupyter notebooks.

Node.js Koa MVC/BFF framework

A Node.js BFF framework built on Koa2 that provides MVC + RESTful architecture, proxy, multi-site, and mock features for front-end/back-end separation.

crypto quant trading framework / algo backtesting and execution

Howtrader is a Python crypto quant framework (forked from VNPY) for writing, backtesting and live-executing trading strategies on Binance and OKX, including TradingView webhook signal automation.

self-hosted free LLM API gateway

Self-hosted HTTP API that gives free, keyless access to many LLM providers (Gemini, DeepSeek, Claude, GPT) with optional GUI and Docker.

CLI SQL querying of local data files

A command-line tool that loads JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet and similar files into an in-memory SQLite database so you can run SQL queries over them.

headless browser automation / Chrome driver

A TypeScript library that drives headless Chrome through a programmatic API (with an optional GraphQL server) for scraping, functional testing and screenshots.

static site / docs generation

Rspress is a fast Rsbuild-based static site generator for documentation and MDX content.

Android manga reader

Kotatsu is a free and open-source Android manga reader that aggregates online manga sources and supports offline reading, tracking, and sync.

dynamic form building (React)

A React/Next.js dynamic form-building tool that lets developers compose, customize and Zod-validate forms inside their web apps.