Tesseract
Established OCR engine that recognises text in images, with support for over 100 languages.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 76.8k
- Deployment
- Library
Open-source alternatives to ABBYY FineReader
ABBYY FineReader in the AI category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.
OCRmyPDF
Adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDF files using OCR.
MPL-2.0Weak copyleft
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes, with conditions
- GitHub stars
- 34.9k
- Deployment
- CLI
MarkItDown
Python tool from Microsoft that converts Office documents, PDFs and other files to Markdown.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 188k
- Deployment
- Library
PaddleOCR
OCR toolkit that reads text and structure from images and PDF files, with support for many languages.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 90.5k
- Deployment
- Library
Docling
Converts PDFs, Office files and images into structured text and tables that AI models can use.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 68.3k
- Deployment
- Library
Marker
Converts PDF files to Markdown and JSON, including tables and equations.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 40.2k
- Deployment
- Library
olmOCR
Toolkit that turns PDF pages into clean, readable text using a language model.
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 19.7k
- Deployment
- Library
Unstructured
Library that turns documents in many formats into structured data for language models and search.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 15.5k
- Deployment
- Library
DeepSeek-OCR
Model from DeepSeek that reads text and layout in document images and compresses them for language models.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- transformers
Florence-2-large
Vision model from Microsoft for captioning, object detection and OCR through text prompts.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- transformers
PaddleOCR-VL
Compact model from PaddleOCR that parses documents with text, tables and formulas in many languages. Based on baidu/ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-Paddle.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- PaddleOCR
dots.ocr
Model that parses document layout and reads text, tables and formulas in one step, in several languages.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- dots_ocr
granite-docling-258M
Small model from IBM that turns document pages into structured text, for use with Docling.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- transformers
olmOCR-7B-0225-preview
Model from the Allen Institute for AI that turns PDF pages into clean text. Based on Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- transformers
GOT-OCR-2.0-hf
OCR model from StepFun that reads text, tables, formulas and sheet music from images.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- transformers
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