Handwritten Text Recognition ML Frameworks

End-to-end systems for recognizing handwritten text in images using deep learning (CRNN, CNN-RNN architectures with CTC loss). Includes HTR/OCR for multiple scripts and languages. Does NOT include character classification without sequence recognition, general OCR without handwriting focus, or datasets alone.

There are 114 handwritten text recognition frameworks tracked. 6 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is breezedeus/CnSTD at 69/100 with 785 stars and 27,833 monthly downloads. 1 of the top 10 are actively maintained.

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#	Framework	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	breezedeus/CnSTD CnSTD: 基于 PyTorch/MXNet 的中文/英文场景文字检测（Scene Text...	69	Established	785	Python
2	JaidedAI/EasyOCR Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing...	67	Established	29,079	Python
3	felixdittrich92/OnnxTR OnnxTR a docTR (Document Text Recognition) library Onnx pipeline wrapper -...	66	Established	176	Python
4	mindee/doctr docTR (Document Text Recognition) - a seamless, high-performing & accessible...	62	Established	5,956	Python
5	githubharald/SimpleHTR Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system implemented with TensorFlow.	54	Established	2,145	Python
6	clovaai/deep-text-recognition-benchmark Text recognition (optical character recognition) with deep learning methods,...	51	Established	3,926	Jupyter Notebook
7	Breta01/handwriting-ocr OCR software for recognition of handwritten text	44	Emerging	829	Jupyter Notebook
8	bgshih/crnn Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN) for image-based sequence recognition.	44	Emerging	2,100	Lua
9	parlance/ctcdecode PyTorch CTC Decoder bindings	44	Emerging	856	C++
10	Bartzi/see Code for the AAAI 2018 publication "SEE: Towards Semi-Supervised End-to-End...	44	Emerging	576	Python
11	Bartzi/stn-ocr Code for the paper STN-OCR: A single Neural Network for Text Detection and...	44	Emerging	503	Python
12	hwalsuklee/awesome-deep-text-detection-recognition A curated list of resources for text detection/recognition (optical...	44	Emerging	2,536	—
13	0x454447415244/HandwritingRecognitionSystem Handwriting Recognition System based on a deep Convolutional Recurrent...	44	Emerging	457	Python
14	gitanat/simple-ocr-opencv A simple python OCR engine using opencv	44	Emerging	532	Python
15	emedvedev/attention-ocr A Tensorflow model for text recognition (CNN + seq2seq with visual...	44	Emerging	1,085	Python
16	phatware/WritePadSDK WritePad Handwriting Recognition SDK	42	Emerging	183	C
17	kotaro-kinoshita/yomitoku YomiTokuはAIを活用した日本語文書解析エンジンを提供するPythonパッケージです。 Yomitoku is an AI-powered...	41	Emerging	1,356	Python
18	Green-Wood/BTTR Official implementation for ICDAR 2021 best poster paper "Handwritten...	41	Emerging	129	Python
19	TomHuynhSG/Vietnamese-Handwriting-Recognition-OCR Handwriting OCR for Vietnamese Address using state-of-the-art CRNN model...	39	Emerging	95	Jupyter Notebook
20	him4318/Transformer-ocr Handwritten text recognition using transformers.	38	Emerging	160	Jupyter Notebook
21	ku21fan/STR-Fewer-Labels Scene Text Recognition (STR) methods trained with fewer real labels (CVPR 2021)	37	Emerging	184	Jupyter Notebook
22	pavlo-melnyk/offline-HCCR The official implementation of the "A high-performance CNN method for...	37	Emerging	45	Python
23	githubharald/WordDetectorNN Detect handwritten words (neural network based).	37	Emerging	73	Python
24	GabrielDornelles/pytorch-ocr Simple Pytorch framework to train OCRs. Supports CRNNs, Attention, CTC and...	37	Emerging	83	Python
25	whitelok/image-text-localization-recognition A general list of resources to image text localization and recognition ...	36	Emerging	959	—
26	Sierkinhane/CRNN_Chinese_Characters_Rec (CRNN) Chinese Characters Recognition.	36	Emerging	1,872	Python
27	armansinghh/handwriting-crnn Building end-to-end handwritten text recognition pipeline using CRNN...	36	Emerging	2	Python
28	Yuliang-Liu/Curve-Text-Detector This repository provides train＆test code, dataset, det.&rec. annotation,...	36	Emerging	652	Jupyter Notebook
29	Bodhi42/Occular-ocr Fast and accurate OCR for Russian documents	35	Emerging	5	Jupyter Notebook
30	robbyzhaox/myocr A highly extensible and customizable framework for building OCR systems.	35	Emerging	287	Python
31	abdur75648/UTRNet-High-Resolution-Urdu-Text-Recognition UTRNet: High-Resolution Urdu Text Recognition In Printed Documents (ICDAR'23)	35	Emerging	64	Python
32	felixdittrich92/docling-OCR-OnnxTR OnnxTR OCR plugin for Docling	34	Emerging	17	Python
33	amazon-science/semimtr-text-recognition Multimodal Semi-Supervised Learning for Text Recognition (SemiMTR)	33	Emerging	83	Python
34	ZumingHuang/awesome-ocr-resources A collection of resources (including the papers and datasets) of OCR...	32	Emerging	430	—
35	githubharald/HTRPipeline Detect and read handwritten words on scanned pages.	32	Emerging	138	Python
36	Top-Python-Projects/Convert-Text-to-Handwriting So your teacher asked you to upload written assignments? Hate writing...	30	Emerging	21	Python
37	bhattbhavesh91/DocTR-OCR-tutorial This repository contains a notebook to demonstrate the power of Document...	30	Emerging	15	Jupyter Notebook
38	PellelNitram/OnlineHTR Online Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) system implemented with PyTorch....	30	Emerging	21	Jupyter Notebook
39	SeldonHZ/TorchfreeEasyOCR This package is EasyOCR-based optical character recognition. Unlike EasyOCR,...	29	Experimental	13	Python
40	bhattbhavesh91/keras-ocr-demo Tutorial on Keras-OCR which is a packaged and flexible version of the CRAFT...	29	Experimental	11	Jupyter Notebook
41	mindee/doctr-tfjs-demo Javascript demo of docTR, powered by TensorFlowJS	29	Experimental	106	TypeScript
42	Green-Wood/CoMER Official implementation for ECCV 2022 paper "CoMER: Modeling Coverage for...	28	Experimental	131	Python
43	lithium0003/findtextCenterNet Japanese OCR with CenterNet	28	Experimental	57	Python
44	mftnakrsu/Comparison-of-OCR Comparison-of-OCR (KerasOCR, PyTesseract,EasyOCR)	28	Experimental	63	Python
45	jideilori/ocr-ml A custom OCR built with HOG and logistic regression	28	Experimental	9	Jupyter Notebook
46	uchicago-digitalculture-webdev/deepscribe Code and sample images described in the paper "DeepScribe: Localization and...	28	Experimental	14	Jupyter Notebook
47	MariyamSiddiqui/OCR-using-Pytesseract Implemented an Optical Character Recognition system in Python using...	27	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
48	CaptainDario/DaKanji-Single-Kanji-Recognition A machine learning model to recognize Japanese characters (Kanji, Katakana, Hiragana)	27	Experimental	51	Jupyter Notebook
49	jarobyte91/post_ocr_correction Source code for the paper "Post-OCR Document Correction with Large Ensembles...	27	Experimental	39	Jupyter Notebook
50	ysig/learnable-typewriter The Learnable Typewriter: A Generative Approach to Text Line Analysis	27	Experimental	34	Python
51	KadenMc/PreprocessingHTR Pre-processing a handwritten page into word images for Handwritten Text...	27	Experimental	31	Python
52	housecricket/How-did-I-write-an-own-OCR-program-using-Keras-and-TensorFlow-in-Python How did I write an own OCR program using Keras and TensorFlow in Python	26	Experimental	27	Python
53	niklashenning/hwd-1000-dataset Dataset containing 1000 images of handwritten digits (0-9) in various widths...	26	Experimental	3	—
54	frobertpixto/hand-drawn-shapes-dataset Hand-drawn Shapes (HDS) Dataset. Images like Rectangles, Ellipses and Triangles	26	Experimental	27	Jupyter Notebook
55	FardinRastakhiz/QuickCharNet QuickCharNet is a deep learning project that leverages an efficient...	25	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
56	Minorislove/Manazir-OCR 📝 Extract high-quality Arabic text from PDFs and images with Manazir OCR, a...	24	Experimental	2	Python
57	0khacha/Tifinagh-Recognizer Tifinagh Character Classifier is a Python-based application that uses a...	24	Experimental	2	Python
58	Qengineering/OpenCV_OCR_DNN Text recognition with OpenCV and deep learning	24	Experimental	4	C++
59	Sagar-modelling/Handwriting_Recognition_CRNN_LSTM In this notebook, we'll go through the steps to train a CRNN (CNN+RNN) model...	23	Experimental	17	Jupyter Notebook
60	bcaitech1/p4-fr-sorry-math-but-love-you a math-formula image recognition project which placed at the first place in...	23	Experimental	10	Python
61	godofecht/Neural-Network-based-OCR Takes a training set of images with drawn characters. Eventually is able to...	23	Experimental	1	C
62	aBacoding/kazakh-htr Kazakh HTR is a full-stack handwritten text recognition app with a FastAPI...	23	Experimental	1	TypeScript
63	rajdhal/trOCR Handwritten Text Recognition	22	Experimental	12	Python
64	mfs-iplab/fhda-challenge Repository for the Forensic Handwritten Document Analysis (FHDA) Challenge,...	22	Experimental	—	HTML
65	RaviduSenavirathna/Sinhala-Word-Recognizer End-to-end Sinhala handwriting recognition pipeline with OpenCV-based...	22	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
66	H0NEYP0T-466/URDU-OCR-CNN 🧠 URDU-OCR-CNN – an AI-powered handwritten Urdu recognition system (Urdu...	22	Experimental	3	Python
67	TomMakesThings/Sinhala-Optical-Character-Recognition An AI project in which I created a basic optical character recognition...	22	Experimental	16	Jupyter Notebook
68	jmdvinodjmd/HCR-Net Official code for paper "HCR-Net: A deep learning based script independent...	22	Experimental	9	Jupyter Notebook
69	coder-backend/OCR-and-language-translation Completed!!!	22	Experimental	11	Jupyter Notebook
70	ssghule/Optical-Character-Recognition-using-Hidden-Markov-Models This project aims to recognize text from images using Hidden Markov Models...	21	Experimental	14	Python
71	WwwwwyDev/pen-stroke-segmentation 基于深度学习中全卷积网络的字体笔划分割（汉字笔画分割）解决方案 A Solution for Font Stroke Segmentation...	21	Experimental	10	Python
72	pstwh/docuwarp Docuwarp is a Python library for unwarping documents	21	Experimental	7	Python
73	oladimeji-kazeem/Handwriting-Transcription-using-Deep-Learning Handwriting Transcription using Deep Learning is a project aimed at...	20	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
74	wathmal/sinhala-ocr A CNN using caffe to identify Sinhala characters	20	Experimental	11	JavaScript
75	olaflaitinen/Thulium Thulium is a production-ready Python library for offline handwritten text...	19	Experimental	8	Python
76	GioiaZheng/handwritten-ocr-system Deep learning-based handwritten OCR system using PyTorch and OpenCV for text...	19	Experimental	6	Python
77	prnvbaraiya/Air-Writing-and-Character-Recognition Basically it's open cv python project where user can draw any alphabets or...	18	Experimental	21	HTML
78	vanya-robot/U-Net_OCR OCR system built with U-Net models and CRNN.	17	Experimental	15	Jupyter Notebook
79	Youssef-Kharroubi/Dev-Elites This project, Medical Handwriting Recognition and Retrieval System, was...	17	Experimental	2	Python
80	Arnav1145/Handwritten-Character-Recognition Codes and Data for Building Handwritten Character (A-Z) Recognition Deep...	16	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
81	AlexBandurin/Menu_Reader This is a web application that converts restaurant menus into text using...	16	Experimental	17	Jupyter Notebook
82	Nexdata-AI/101-People-4538-Images-Japanese-Handwriting-OCR-Data Japanese Handwriting OCR Dataset	16	Experimental	4	—
83	RivoLink/text-recognition A lightweight neural network project for recognizing handwritten text using...	15	Experimental	—	Java
84	sanket-ghodake/handwritten-character-recognition Handwritten text recognition using Tensorflow	15	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
85	cem-sirin/mlx_ocr OCR Library using Apple MLX Framework	15	Experimental	21	Python
86	BryanTheLai/ocr-inference-gpu Fast GPU-powered OCR inference with deep learning models. Modular, scalable,...	15	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
87	amrfarouqa/Egyptian-Hieroglyph-Recognition Egyptian Hieroglyphic Recognition: Transliteration Technique Versus Neural...	15	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
88	ElDonMuertoXD/text-to-handwriting 📝 Generate realistic handwritten documents from typed text, perfect for...	14	Experimental	—	—
89	ndkieen227/CRNN-OCR-Sequence-Recognition Recognize text in images using a CRNN model with CNN encoder, BiLSTM...	14	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
90	shahin-ro/Alphabet-Recognition Python script for Persian alphabet recognition using two neural networks....	14	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
91	shervinnd/Persian_Alphabet_Detection 🧠 Persian_Alphabet_Detection is a deep learning project for recognizing...	14	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
92	Saeed-Biabani/Scene-Text-Recognition Text recognition (optical character recognition) with deep learning methods in farsi.	14	Experimental	11	Python
93	ZekeyFreakyy/Chandas-identification 🕉️ Identify Sanskrit poetic meters using machine learning with explainable...	14	Experimental	—	Python
94	AhsanAkhlaq/HandWrittenTextRecognition A lightweight Python GUI application for handwriting recognition using...	14	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
95	YasinShafiei/Handwritten-text-recognition Handwritten text recognition with TensorFlow	14	Experimental	9	Jupyter Notebook
96	ajaykumarvarma/Doctor-Handwriting-Recognition doctor_prescription_recognization_using_DeepLearning project for epics	14	Experimental	9	Jupyter Notebook
97	matlab-deep-learning/Text-Detection-using-Deep-Learning Text Detection using Pretrained CRAFT model in MATLAB	14	Experimental	14	—
98	agSwift/whiteboard-captioning An approach to handwriting recognition using individual Bézier curves.	13	Experimental	5	Jupyter Notebook
99	premkjain/Optical-Character-Recognition This OCR project leverages ML models like Random Forest, KNN, SVM, and GMM...	13	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
100	yxshee/handwritten-text-recognition deep learning-based approach to recognizing handwritten text from images	13	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
101	mehrdad-dev/persis Official github repository, Persis: A persian font recognition pipeline...	13	Experimental	10	—
102	agoor97/CNN_Arabic_Handwritten_Characters This Repository provides a NoteBook for CNN Arabic Handwritten Recognition,...	13	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
103	quocnhut134/CRNN_Vietnamese-Handwriting-Sequence_OCR A PyTorch implementation of a CRNN model for Vietnamese Handwritten Text...	13	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
104	dinraj910/CRNN-OCR-Sequence-Recognition A production-ready OCR sequence recognition system built using CRNN (CNN +...	12	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
105	t4f1d/iamonsense IAMonSense: Multi-level Handwriting Classification using Spatio-temporal...	12	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
106	ambientWave/Handwritten-Prescription-Text-Recognition-Deep-CNN-Tensorflow Medical prescription handwritten text recognition using machine learning	12	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
107	simoncampos1022/DL-OCR-YOLOandCRNN Deep learning-based Scene Text Recognition (OCR) pipeline using YOLO and...	12	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
108	VisionWrks/Accurate_Arabic_OCR This is a repo for building world-class arabic OCR	11	Experimental	—	Python
109	Qengineering/OpenCV_OCR_Detect_Text Detect text in an image with OpenCV	11	Experimental	2	C++
110	Depth-Semantic-Aware-Image-Generation/TBrain_China-Steel-AI-Challenge Participants must develop an AI algorithm to recognize printed or...	11	Experimental	2	Python
111	sjsilvabr/Handwriting In this repository we explore the resources of convolutional neural networks...	11	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
112	emirbaycan/ocr_digital_screen_reader OCR tool for extracting numbers from digital screens in images or videos,...	11	Experimental	—	Python
113	lostal/ai-text-recognition Sistema OCR con Deep Learning (CRNN + CTC) entrenado con 100k imágenes...	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
114	AryanJamal/KChar KChar is a web-based application built with React and Django for recognizing...	10	Experimental	1	JavaScript

Comparisons in this category

deep-text-recognition-benchmark and awesome-deep-text-detection-recognition (51 vs 44) OnnxTR and doctr (66 vs 62) SimpleHTR and handwriting-ocr (54 vs 44) SimpleHTR and HandwritingRecognitionSystem (54 vs 44)