Alternatives

Products that do what CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages does

1. 1OP
   Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents▲285

   2017 · github.com

2. 2SS
   Snappy, Secure, On-Device OCR for macOS▲9

   2020 · frankbyte.com

3. 3OO
   OpenScan – open-source document scanner app▲200

   2021 · github.com

4. 4
   LetterSnap OCR▲121

   Pictures to text, fast and exact.

   2016

5. 5FA
   Filmulator – a streamlined, open-source raw photo editor▲282

   2021 · filmulator.org

6. 6DP
   Digitizing photos of whiteboards using the command line▲186

   2014 · gist.github.com

7. 7MA
   Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac▲141

   2015 · monodraw.com

8. 8SI
   Simple image resizing/optimization service▲171

   2017 · scaley.io

9. 9MA
   Maim – A simple screenshot utility for Linux▲124

   2014 · github.com

10. 10BS
    Bild – Simple image processing in Go with parallel processing support▲87

    2016 · github.com

11. 11GA
    GPU-Accelerated Digit Recognition with WebGL▲135

    2016 · erkaman.github.io

12. 12TA
    tesserocr – A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API▲78

    2016 · github.com

13. 13OA
    OcrThisImage.app, optical character recognition macOS app▲6

    2017 · github.com

14. 14PI
    Pixelator.io – Secure data in pictures▲29

    2015 · pixelator.io

15. 15OS
    Optical stripe reading and floppy disk imaging attempt▲71

    2018 · anfractuosity.com

16. 16WB
    We built an OCR server that can process 270 dense images/s on a 5090▲8

    Apr 2026 · github.com

17. 17DO
    Docsumo-OCR – Chrome extension to capture webpages and edit text▲18

    2021 · chrome.google.com

18. 18HA
    Homoglyph Attack Prevention with OCR▲5

    2019 · github.com

19. 19CA
    Crop and OCR PDFs in the Browser▲5

    2024 · pdf.darefail.com

20. 20OS
    Online Screenshot OCR – clipboard or drag and drop▲5

    2016 · structurise.com

21. 21KO
    Keras-OCR is an end-to-end, trainable OCR pipeline▲11

    2019 · github.com

22. 22PM
    Pixaven – modern GPU-powered image processing API▲31

    2019 · pixaven.com

23. 23OB
    OCR Buddy: local browser OCR for code, formulas (LaTeX) and tables▲9

    Jul 2026 · github.com

24. 24VB
    Viso – Beautiful minimal image viewer for macOS▲14

    2019 · getviso.app

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