Open Source OCR Software

gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract. Features include: - Import PDF documents and images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots - Process multiple images and documents in one go - Manual or automatic recognition area definition - Recognize to plain text or to hOCR documents - Recognized text displayed directly next to the image - Post-process the recognized text, including spellchecking - Generate PDF documents from hOCR documents **Note**: This page is only a mirror for the downloads. Development is happening on github at https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader, release binaries are also posted there.

Provides optical character recognition (OCR) solutions for Vietnamese language.

A Java JNA wrapper for Tesseract OCR API

Timeline based editor for creating Compact Disc Subcode Graphics (also known as CD+G or CDG). Both karaoke and multimedia styles of content are supported. Please visit cdgmagic.sf.net for examples playable directly in the HTML5 CD+G player. CD+Graphics Scribe utility (separate download -- click "Browse All Files" above) can now convert existing CDG karaoke content to CMP (CD+Graphics Magic Project), LRC (Enhanced Lyrics), and ASS (Advanced SubStation Alpha) format.

Neuroph OCR - Handwriting Recognition is developed to recognize hand written letter and characters. It's engine derived's from the Java Neural Network Framework - Neuroph and as such it can be used as a standalone project or a Neuroph plug in.

An image postprocessor for the DIY Book Scanner described on instructables.com and diybookscanner.org. Gets images ready for OCR or for PDF. Written in Java based on a partial port of the Leptonica image processing library.

Akshara Malayalam OCR is a project for the development of an OCR for printed and handwritten documents in Malayalam language. The inspiration is from similar OCR softwares in other languages etc.

Joshi is a program that tries to recognize shapes on an image with a focus on OCR. It converts the image to vector graphics (polylines) and then tries to project these on stored vector graphics, calculating the best match.

Java Swing application to modify PNG graphics ahead of OCR.

EDocIAS (Electronic Document Index And Search) is a PHP-based tool for indexing and searching files of various types. Third-party tools (tesseract, xpdf, etc.) can be configured to support any type of file.

Software to fit whole-sentence language models using the principle of maximum entropy. For developers of speech recognizers, text prediction interfaces, OCR, machine translation software.

An omnifont OCR software for KDE. Due to the fact that each step of the OCR process can be visualized you can get a quick idea of how OCR works and where the problems lie. However the program may be of minor/no use for end users in its current state.