Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Open-Source LaTeX OCR, Alternative to Mathpix/SimpleTex
In-browser LaTeX OCR
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Convert images and PDFs to LaTeX, DOCX, Overleaf, Markdown, Excel, ChemDraw and more, with our AI-powered document conversion technology.
2018 · mathpix.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · socrates.io · its alternatives →
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This started out as a weekend hack with gpt-4-mini, using the very basic strategy of "just ask the ai to ocr the document". But this turned out to be better performing than our current implementation of Unstructured/Textract. At pretty much the same cost. I've tested almost every variant of document OCR over the past year, especially trying things like table / chart extraction. I've found the rules based extraction has always been lacking. Documents are meant to be a visual representation after all. With weird layouts, tables, charts, etc. Using a vision model just make sense! In…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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NoTex▲66Online Text Editor for Math Formulas (open source)
2014 · linux-abos.com · its alternatives →
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Math formula images to latex & markdown & text
2025 · ocrformula.online · its alternatives →
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Faithful, 100% local OCR Chrome extension | code, prose, formulas (LaTeX) & tables. No server, nothing leaves your device, no hallucinated text. PP-OCRv5 on ONNX Runtime Web. - Fanfulla/OCR-buddy
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m the creator of Math2Tex. I was a PhD student, I spend a huge amount of my time working with LaTeX, especially when dealing with lecture notes, academic papers, and homework. I built *Math2Tex*, a lightweight tool that converts handwritten or printed academic content — especially math formulas — into LaTeX or text The Problem: I've always found it incredibly tedious to manually type out mathematical formulas, especially complex, multi-line equations from my handwritten notes or from a textbook. It's slow, boring, and I always make syntax errors. I tried some existing tools, but…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Download Copyfish for Firefox. Do you need to extract text from images, videos or PDF? If yes, then the Copyfish free OCR software is for you. Until now, your only option was to retype the text. Copyfish is so much faster and more fun. It can do desktop screenshots and OCR, too.
2017 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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I've made a website to easily share a LaTeX math formula. - The image is created in the browser (i.e. the LaTeX is not send to a server for rendering) - Native share dialog (share via WhatsApp etc.) - Extra keyboard buttons for symbols like "$" or "\" on mobile - Share via png or unicode Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fGuTns5Nt9Q Please let me know any feedback on how to improve the website.
2024 · latex.to · its alternatives →
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I built OCR Arena as a free playground for the community to compare leading foundation VLMs and open-source OCR models side-by-side. Upload any doc, measure accuracy, and (optionally) vote for the models on a public leaderboard. It currently has Gemini 3, dots.ocr, DeepSeek, GPT5, olmOCR 2, Qwen, and a few others. If there's any others you'd like included, let me know!
Nov 2025 · ocrarena.ai · its alternatives →
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I just realized you can now open a PDF document in Firefox and select text directly from scanned images embedded in the document (so basically transparently reliable doing OCR). It is also surprisingly reliable, only sometimes mistaking a "oh" for a "zero" in a long string of numbers. I neither know when this was introduced nor who added this feature, but from the bottom of my heart: thank you, thank you, thank you, you have made my daily life a lot easier. I also haven't really explored the limits of the feature and under what conditions it starts failing, but: in my daily workflow so far,…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Invoice OCR▲111OCR Software & API for realtime data extraction from Invoice
2023 · mastersindia.co · its alternatives →
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Ximera provides the backend technology for online courses
2018 · ximera.osu.edu · its alternatives →
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Document Scanner that protects your privacy. Contribute to ethereal-developers/OpenScan development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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OCR.chat▲12Free online OCR. Convert images and PDFs to editable text, tables and LaTeX in 100+ languages, then chat with your document and get answers cited to the page. No signup to try.
Jun 2026 · ocr.chat · its alternatives →
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2021 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Math OCR model that outputs LaTeX and markdown. Contribute to VikParuchuri/texify development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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