Open Source OCR Tools

Free and open-source tool for screen capture and recording; enables file uploads, annotation, dark mode, 4K support, and customizable themes.

Efficient screenshot tool providing OCR, exports to Office apps, supports image editing and sharing, occupying minimal space with 32 languages.

The OSS Document Scanner is an Open Source app to scan all your documents. You either scan using your camera or by importing an image. The app will automatically detect you document within the photo and will crop the image.

NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.

locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files.

Ksnip is a Qt based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.

Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.

BentoPDF is a PDF Toolkit that works fully offline with no sign ups. It's fast, secure and forever free. In an era where data is a commodity, we take a different approach. All processing for BentoPDF tools happens locally in your browser.

gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

OpenRecall lets you easily access your digital history, enhancing your memory and productivity without compromising your privacy.

Open-source cross-platform screen recorder with instant video editing, 4K recording, one-click sharing, privacy controls, no signup, and self-hosting options.

Open-source tool for macOS with region, window, and fullscreen capture modes, local OCR, fast annotation, customizable backgrounds, and menu bar access.

OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.

Crow Translate is a simple and lightweight translator programmed in C++ / Qt that allows to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex and Bing translate API.

Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper. Paperless-ngx forked from paperless-ng.

Paperwork is a personal document manager for scanned documents (and PDFs).

Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots). The first release of Sikuli contains Sikuli Script, a visual scripting API for Jython, and Sikuli IDE, an integrated development environment for writing visual...

TimeScroll makes your Mac’s past instantly searchable—private by design, free forever.

Open Scanner is a fast and simple-to-use paper-scanning app with AI features to speed up your scanning workflow:

Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file.

Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.

Program to recognize text on screen.

This little application provides a way on scanning handwritten notes and printed documents.

Text Grab is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.

TRex captures any text right into your Clipboard with magic of OCR.