PaddleOCR
Free
A popular open-source OCR toolkit from Baidu that handles multilingual text and document parsing.
About Tesseract
Tesseract is a free OCR engine that has been developed for decades, with Google supporting it for years. It reads text from images in more than a hundred languages and is built into a huge number of tools and scripts.
Modern versions use neural networks for recognition. Developers call it from the command line or through libraries in Python, Java and other languages, often as the base for their own document workflows.
Tesseract is completely free under an open license. It does best on clean scans, and tricky layouts may call for extra preprocessing or a newer model.
Standout features
- Open source
- 100+ languages
- Neural network recognition
- Command line and libraries
- Searchable PDF output
- Widely integrated
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