http://ln.ht/_/images/favicon-4c526c32c48400028d7739cac47cd2a3.svg?vsn=dhttp://ln.ht/_/feed/ocrBookmarks tagged with: ocr2026-07-24T10:41:31.827542Zstefankuehnelhttps://ln.ht/~stefankuehnelhttps://aistudio.baidu.com/paddleocrPaddleOCR2026-05-18T21:22:39ZSergeantBiggshttps://ln.ht/~SergeantBiggshttps://aistudio.baidu.com/paddleocrPaddleOCR2026-05-18T18:30:21ZSergeantBiggshttps://ln.ht/~SergeantBiggs<p>
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown</p>
https://github.com/microsoft/markitdownmicrosoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.2026-05-18T11:30:13Ztmfnkhttps://ln.ht/~tmfnk<p>
A powerful, privacy-first PDF editor that runs in your browser or locally on your computer. Add text, signatures, merge, split, export to DOCX — 39 features, completely free and offline. Files never touch our servers.</p>
https://breezepdf.com/BreezePDF — Edit PDFs Easily and Securely2026-03-25T10:53:27Zsilashttps://ln.ht/~silas<p>
via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924075</p>
https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCRzai-org/GLM-OCR: GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive2026-02-13T22:20:13Zsilashttps://ln.ht/~silashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924075GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding | Hacker News2026-02-13T22:19:30Zsebastienhttps://ln.ht/~sebastien<p>
As the title says, a cookbook on working with structured data, by people who created open source OCR and document processing tools </p>
https://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputsNanonets cookbook for structured LLM output2026-01-17T19:20:01Ztmfnkhttps://ln.ht/~tmfnk<p>
OCR Arena is a free playground for testing and evaluating leading foundation VLMs and open source OCR models side-by-side. Upload a document, measure accuracy, and vote for the best models on a public leaderboard.</p>
https://www.ocrarena.ai/battleOCR Arena2025-11-25T13:12:47Ztmfnkhttps://ln.ht/~tmfnk<p>
Datalab’s Chandra topped independent benchmarks and beat the previously best dots-ocr.</p>
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Support for 40+ languages </li>
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Handles text, tables, formulas seamlessly </li>
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https://www.datalab.to/playground/documents/newDatalab's Chandra2025-11-02T11:14:48Ztmfnkhttps://ln.ht/~tmfnk<p>
A toolkit for converting PDFs and other image-based document formats into clean, readable, plain text format.</p>
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Try the online demo: https://olmocr.allenai.org/</p>
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Convert PDF, PNG, and JPEG based documents into clean Markdown
Support for equations, tables, handwriting, and complex formatting
Automatically removes headers and footers
Convert into text with a natural reading order, even in the presence of figures, multi-column layouts, and insets
Efficient, less than $200 USD per million pages converted
(Based on a 7B parameter VLM, so it requires a GPU)</p>
https://github.com/allenai/olmocrallenai/olmocr: Toolkit for linearizing PDFs for LLM datasets/training2025-10-29T08:32:34Ztmfnkhttps://ln.ht/~tmfnk<p>
Contexts Optical Compression. Contribute to deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR development by creating an account on GitHub.</p>
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCRdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression2025-10-27T14:23:27Ztmfnkhttps://ln.ht/~tmfnk<p>
An AI Model Just Compressed An Entire Encyclopedia Into A Single, High-Resolution Image.</p>
https://readmultiplex.com/2025/10/20/an-ai-model-just-compressed-an-entire-encyclopedia-into-a-single-high-resolution-image/An AI Model Just Compressed An Entire Encyclopedia Into A Single, High-Resolution Image. – @ReadMultiplex2025-10-27T14:23:02Zvsajiphttps://ln.ht/~vsajip<p>
This article will cover the top ten OCR libraries in Python, highlighting their strengths, unique features, and code examples to help you get started.</p>
https://www.tecmint.com/python-text-extraction-from-images/7 Best Python OCR Libraries for Image-to-Text Conversion2025-09-11T18:44:57Zshubxamhttps://ln.ht/~shubxamhttps://github.com/CatchTheTornado/text-extract-apiCatchTheTornado/text-extract-api: Document (PDF, Word, PPTX ...) extraction and parse API using state of the art modern OCRs + Ollama supported models. Anonymize documents. Remove PII. Convert any document or picture to structured JSON or Markdown2025-08-30T13:57:09Zciwchrishttps://ln.ht/~ciwchrishttps://github.com/yigitkonur/swift-ocr-llm-powered-pdf-to-markdownAn open-source OCR API that leverages OpenAI's powerful language models2024-09-23T15:04:47Zdozenshttps://ln.ht/~dozenshttps://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/30/ocr-pdfs-images/Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in your browser2024-04-01T01:01:23Zelihttps://ln.ht/~eli<p>
OCR-powered screenshot tool to capture text instead of images. </p>
https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/#featuresNormCap2023-12-29T14:11:29Zastratagemhttps://ln.ht/~astratagemhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Supernote/comments/11oevjf/how_i_integrate_my_supernote_notes_with_obsidian/jbx5tpq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_buttonSiewcaWiatru's comment on "How I integrate my Supernote notes with Obsidian automatically"2023-10-19T14:18:13ZchrisSthttps://ln.ht/~chrisSt<p>
Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives (Scanned Documents) - papermerge/docker-compose.yml at master · ciur/papermerge</p>
https://github.com/ciur/papermerge/blob/master/docker/docker-compose.ymlpapermerge/docker-compose.yml at master · ciur/papermerge2023-02-27T21:04:48Zmlbhttps://ln.ht/~mlb<p>
Frustrated by the limitations of Tesseract OCR to extract text from meme images, the author found a way to leverage the iOS Vision API capabilities from older iphones models connected to a Raspberry Pi to build his own OCR service.</p>
https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-iphone-racks-building-an-internet-scale-meme-search-engine-Qzrz7V6T.htmlImage Stacks and iPhone Racks - Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine | FindThatMeme.com Blog2023-01-11T08:53:02Z