Document OCR Extraction NLP Tools

Tools for extracting structured and unstructured text from documents (PDFs, scans, receipts, invoices, IDs) using OCR and computer vision. Does NOT include general document analysis, summarization, or retrieval systems without extraction focus.

There are 57 document ocr extraction tools tracked. 2 score above 70 (verified tier). The highest-rated is deepdoctection/deepdoctection at 85/100 with 3,147 stars and 5,833 monthly downloads. 2 of the top 10 are actively maintained.

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#	Tool	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	deepdoctection/deepdoctection A Repo For Document AI	85	Verified	3,147	Python
2	deanmalmgren/textract extract text from any document. no muss. no fuss.	78	Verified	4,482	HTML
3	eikek/docspell Assist in organizing your piles of documents, resulting from scanners,...	54	Established	2,193	Elm
4	clovaai/donut Official Implementation of OCR-free Document Understanding Transformer...	45	Emerging	6,815	Python
5	axa-group/Parsr Transforms PDF, Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data	44	Emerging	6,170	JavaScript
6	zzzDavid/ICDAR-2019-SROIE ICDAR 2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Scanned Receipts OCR and Information...	44	Emerging	411	Python
7	Saransh-cpp/OCRed Clever, simple, and intuitive wrapper functionalities for OCRing specific...	40	Emerging	16	Python
8	rithulkamesh/docproc Document Intelligence Platform — Extract, refine, and query documents with...	38	Emerging	5	Python
9	gnana70/tamil_ocr OCR Tamil is a powerful tool that can detect and recognize text in Tamil...	37	Emerging	84	Python
10	JonnoB/reading_the_unreadable A pipeline for performing OCR on historical newspapers	36	Emerging	6	Python
11	Rushi-Balapure/pdf_2_json_extractor A high-performance Python library for extracting structured content from PDF...	34	Emerging	3	Python
12	NjoyimPeguy/ICDAR-2019-RRC-SROIE ICDAR 2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Scanned Receipts OCR and Information...	33	Emerging	33	Python
13	s3nh/text-detector Tool which allow you to detect and translate text.	32	Emerging	181	Python
14	gani114433/OCR_workflow N8N OCR workflow	30	Emerging	9	—
15	Shulk97/daniel This repository contain the implementation of DANIEL. (A fast Document...	29	Experimental	21	Python
16	clovaai/webvicob Official Implementation of Web-based Visual Corpus Builder (Webvicob), ICDAR 2023	29	Experimental	109	Python
17	louisbrulenaudet/apple-ocr Easy-to-Use Apple Vision wrapper for text extraction, scalar representation...	28	Experimental	118	Python
18	situx/CuneiPainter An App to recognize cuneiform characters on your Android phone	28	Experimental	10	Java
19	lukevanin/OCRAI Optical Character Recognition Artificial Intelligence iOS app for Udacity nanodegree	28	Experimental	6	Swift
20	trhgquan/OCR_chu_nom Đồ án OCR chữ Nôm (CSC15006)	27	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
21	Samuel310/Text-Recognition Android application to extract text from an image using firebase MLkit.	26	Experimental	6	Java
22	codebywiam/invoice-ocr This project extracts key fields (like invoice number, date, total, and...	26	Experimental	2	C
23	ierolsen/Business-Card-Reader-App The main idea of this project is that extracting entities from the scanned...	24	Experimental	19	Jupyter Notebook
24	jweissenberger/auto-docs A CLI tool that automatically generates documentation for python code using...	24	Experimental	3	Python
25	Zer0-Bug/ID-Document_Recognition End-to-end offline OCR and semantic parsing pipeline for identity documents...	21	Experimental	2	Python
26	macosnik/Recognize-text-from-image Telegram-бот для распознавания текста на изображениях с использованием нейросетей	21	Experimental	2	Python
27	DecisionNerd/docunderstand A python system for Visually Rich Document Understanding	19	Experimental	—	Python
28	SundayOni/document-ocr-nlp-pipeline End-to-end pipeline for extracting and structuring text from scanned, PDF...	19	Experimental	—	Python
29	nicdriebe/ocr-ner-sharepic-evaluation Bachelor's Thesis: Evaluation of open-source OCR and NER pipelines...	19	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
30	michael-borck/document-lens Analyzes text documents for readability, academic integrity, and linguistic...	19	Experimental	—	Python
31	avrtt/MobileEAST Paper and code for a lightweight & fast scene text detection based on EAST...	17	Experimental	5	Python
32	itshivams/Persona-Driven-Document-Intelligence Persona-Driven Document Intelligence – A lightweight, CPU-only system that...	17	Experimental	2	Python
33	isikmuhamm/unstructured-data-extraction-engine Automated data ingestion pipeline for extracting plain text from proprietary...	17	Experimental	2	Python
34	transybao1393/android-ocr Android OCR using CameraX, support MLKit, support offline mode, support...	17	Experimental	3	Kotlin
35	fmadore/iwac-ai-pipelines AI pipelines for Omeka S digital collections - OCR correction, entity...	17	Experimental	3	Python
36	erl-ang/interactive-ocr Implementation of a couple of heuristics that estimate OCR quality without...	16	Experimental	3	Python
37	meck93/ScanOrUploadMe A React-Native mobile application that digitalizes physical event...	16	Experimental	4	JavaScript
38	xuan3986/Texthandle Open source project provided to Baidu PaddlePaddle community. Apply...	15	Experimental	2	Python
39	marekpridal/Vision-OCR-Demo Sample project for on-device text recognition	15	Experimental	6	Swift
40	iytedbb/OSPA-SuryaOCR OSPA SuryaOCR – Advanced document processing framework for historical...	15	Experimental	1	HTML
41	SivaPA08/text-capture Captures screen regions, extracts text and copies it to the clipboard	14	Experimental	3	Python
42	dev-sungman/recent-ocr-papers this repo include paper review, code in text detection, text recognition,...	14	Experimental	7	Python
43	asainov1/invoice-generator-agent Telegram bot for invoice generation — OCR (Tesseract) → NLP parsing → PDF...	14	Experimental	—	—
44	Komorebirumu/awe-ms-20260315-2211-01 AI Historical Document Transcription & Analysis CLI Tool	14	Experimental	—	—
45	archity/doc-scanner Computer Vision and NLP based document scanner, text extractor and summarizer.	14	Experimental	11	Python
46	esteininger/file-processor A Python library that uses AI to convert unstructured files (like PDFs,...	14	Experimental	1	Python
47	HySonLab/TeBaAb TeBaAb: Text-Based Antigen-Conditioned Antibody Redesign via Directed Evolution	14	Experimental	3	Python
48	Keizouw8/OCR-Command-Line-Tool A tool that can be used in the CLI or NodeJS environment to scan for text in...	13	Experimental	4	JavaScript
49	shubh11220/PDF-Text-Extraction Create a data extraction platform for users to conveniently obtain data in a...	13	Experimental	6	Python
50	avirajsa/DocuMind DocuMind - Python project for document analysis. Analyze, summarize, and...	13	Experimental	6	Python
51	Cool-fire/Snipps 📚 📝📜 A simple android app to convert information into digital snippets,...	12	Experimental	4	Java
52	mishaelaaa/OCR This is a project in which I store all my attempts to create an application...	12	Experimental	4	Python
53	saloni-rangari/nlp-ocr-marathi This mini-project implements Marathi handwritten text recognition using...	12	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
54	husnutass/ml_kit_app A Flutter mobile app to read data from business cards and save that data in...	11	Experimental	2	Dart
55	emilyhasson/Text-Recognition Scripts to convert low-quality scanned PDFs to text files using Google Cloud...	11	Experimental	2	Python
56	fdovila/PDF2TXT4NLP an online Python web app that accepts academic articles in PDF format and...	10	Experimental	1	Shell
57	Prateek32177/TextlyAI AI-powered tool to extract and classify text from images using OCR and...	10	Experimental	1	JavaScript

Comparisons in this category

deepdoctection and docproc (85 vs 38) ICDAR-2019-SROIE and ICDAR-2019-RRC-SROIE (44 vs 33)