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 63 document ocr extraction tools tracked. 1 score above 70 (verified tier). The highest-rated is deepdoctection/deepdoctection at 76/100 with 3,147 stars. 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	76	Verified	3,147	Python
2	deanmalmgren/textract extract text from any document. no muss. no fuss.	68	Established	4,482	HTML
3	eikek/docspell Assist in organizing your piles of documents, resulting from scanners,...	61	Established	2,193	Elm
4	zzzDavid/ICDAR-2019-SROIE ICDAR 2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Scanned Receipts OCR and Information...	51	Established	411	Python
5	clovaai/donut Official Implementation of OCR-free Document Understanding Transformer...	45	Emerging	6,815	Python
6	axa-group/Parsr Transforms PDF, Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data	44	Emerging	6,170	JavaScript
7	Saransh-cpp/OCRed Clever, simple, and intuitive wrapper functionalities for OCRing specific...	44	Emerging	16	Python
8	gnana70/tamil_ocr OCR Tamil is a powerful tool that can detect and recognize text in Tamil...	44	Emerging	84	Python
9	JonnoB/reading_the_unreadable A pipeline for performing OCR on historical newspapers	43	Emerging	6	Python
10	rithulkamesh/docproc Document Intelligence Platform — Extract, refine, and query documents with...	42	Emerging	5	Python
11	NjoyimPeguy/ICDAR-2019-RRC-SROIE ICDAR 2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Scanned Receipts OCR and Information...	40	Emerging	33	Python
12	s3nh/text-detector Tool which allow you to detect and translate text.	39	Emerging	181	Python
13	gani114433/OCR_workflow N8N OCR workflow	36	Emerging	9	—
14	Rushi-Balapure/pdf_2_json_extractor A high-performance Python library for extracting structured content from PDF...	36	Emerging	3	Python
15	clovaai/webvicob Official Implementation of Web-based Visual Corpus Builder (Webvicob), ICDAR 2023	36	Emerging	109	Python
16	situx/CuneiPainter An App to recognize cuneiform characters on your Android phone	35	Emerging	10	Java
17	lukevanin/OCRAI Optical Character Recognition Artificial Intelligence iOS app for Udacity nanodegree	35	Emerging	6	Swift
18	louisbrulenaudet/apple-ocr Easy-to-Use Apple Vision wrapper for text extraction, scalar representation...	35	Emerging	118	Python
19	trhgquan/OCR_chu_nom Đồ án OCR chữ Nôm (CSC15006)	34	Emerging	8	Jupyter Notebook
20	Samuel310/Text-Recognition Android application to extract text from an image using firebase MLkit.	33	Emerging	6	Java
21	codebywiam/invoice-ocr This project extracts key fields (like invoice number, date, total, and...	32	Emerging	2	C
22	Shulk97/daniel This repository contain the implementation of DANIEL. (A fast Document...	32	Emerging	21	Python
23	ierolsen/Business-Card-Reader-App The main idea of this project is that extracting entities from the scanned...	31	Emerging	19	Jupyter Notebook
24	jweissenberger/auto-docs A CLI tool that automatically generates documentation for python code using...	31	Emerging	3	Python
25	macosnik/Recognize-text-from-image Telegram-бот для распознавания текста на изображениях с использованием нейросетей	25	Experimental	2	Python
26	isikmuhamm/unstructured-data-extraction-engine Automated data ingestion pipeline for extracting plain text from proprietary...	24	Experimental	2	Python
27	transybao1393/android-ocr Android OCR using CameraX, support MLKit, support offline mode, support...	24	Experimental	3	Kotlin
28	meck93/ScanOrUploadMe A React-Native mobile application that digitalizes physical event...	23	Experimental	4	JavaScript
29	erl-ang/interactive-ocr Implementation of a couple of heuristics that estimate OCR quality without...	23	Experimental	3	Python
30	itshivams/Persona-Driven-Document-Intelligence Persona-Driven Document Intelligence – A lightweight, CPU-only system that...	23	Experimental	2	Python
31	fmadore/iwac-ai-pipelines AI pipelines for Omeka S digital collections - OCR correction, entity...	23	Experimental	3	Python
32	xuan3986/Texthandle Open source project provided to Baidu PaddlePaddle community. Apply...	22	Experimental	2	Python
33	archity/doc-scanner Computer Vision and NLP based document scanner, text extractor and summarizer.	21	Experimental	11	Python
34	SivaPA08/text-capture Captures screen regions, extracts text and copies it to the clipboard	21	Experimental	3	Python
35	dev-sungman/recent-ocr-papers this repo include paper review, code in text detection, text recognition,...	21	Experimental	7	Python
36	esteininger/file-processor A Python library that uses AI to convert unstructured files (like PDFs,...	21	Experimental	1	Python
37	avirajsa/DocuMind DocuMind - Python project for document analysis. Analyze, summarize, and...	20	Experimental	6	Python
38	Keizouw8/OCR-Command-Line-Tool A tool that can be used in the CLI or NodeJS environment to scan for text in...	20	Experimental	4	JavaScript
39	shubh11220/PDF-Text-Extraction Create a data extraction platform for users to conveniently obtain data in a...	20	Experimental	6	Python
40	DecisionNerd/docunderstand A python system for Visually Rich Document Understanding	19	Experimental	—	Python
41	mishaelaaa/OCR This is a project in which I store all my attempts to create an application...	19	Experimental	4	Python
42	Cool-fire/Snipps 📚 📝📜 A simple android app to convert information into digital snippets,...	19	Experimental	4	Java
43	SundayOni/document-ocr-nlp-pipeline End-to-end pipeline for extracting and structuring text from scanned, PDF...	19	Experimental	—	Python
44	michael-borck/document-lens Analyzes text documents for readability, academic integrity, and linguistic...	19	Experimental	—	Python
45	husnutass/ml_kit_app A Flutter mobile app to read data from business cards and save that data in...	18	Experimental	2	Dart
46	saloni-rangari/nlp-ocr-marathi This mini-project implements Marathi handwritten text recognition using...	18	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
47	emilyhasson/Text-Recognition Scripts to convert low-quality scanned PDFs to text files using Google Cloud...	18	Experimental	2	Python
48	HySonLab/TeBaAb TeBaAb: Text-Based Antigen-Conditioned Antibody Redesign via Directed Evolution	18	Experimental	3	Python
49	fdovila/PDF2TXT4NLP an online Python web app that accepts academic articles in PDF format and...	17	Experimental	1	Shell
50	Prateek32177/TextlyAI AI-powered tool to extract and classify text from images using OCR and...	17	Experimental	1	JavaScript
51	nicdriebe/ocr-ner-sharepic-evaluation Bachelor's Thesis: Evaluation of open-source OCR and NER pipelines...	15	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
52	iytedbb/OSPA-SuryaOCR OSPA SuryaOCR – Advanced document processing framework for historical...	14	Experimental	1	HTML
53	Komorebirumu/awe-ms-20260315-2211-01 AI Historical Document Transcription & Analysis CLI Tool	14	Experimental	—	—
54	sushant1827/Mistral-OCR-PDF-Image This workflow automates the extraction of structured information from PDFs...	14	Experimental	9	—
55	jacobmarks/pytesseract-ocr-plugin Run optical character recognition with PyTesseract from the FiftyOne App!	13	Experimental	11	Python
56	ITSAIDI/Textra Welcome to the documentation repository for Textra tool. We combine OCR and...	12	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
57	Duke-Chronicle-Project/awesome-historical-newspaper-analysis Awesome historical newspaper analysis tools and literature	12	Experimental	8	—
58	Methila-Meem/AI_Invoice_Analyzer Automatically extracts, validates, and structures invoice data from images...	12	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
59	RamezCh/Arabic_Text_Extractor This project is a fine tuned Tesseract OCR ara on Arabic handwriting with...	11	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
60	jyothish-ram/invoice_ocr_api Invoice OCR Extraction Flask API	11	Experimental	3	Python
61	AmmarAhm3d/invoice-gemini-extracter Invoice-Gemini-Extracter: Python tool to extract structured invoice data...	10	Experimental	2	Python
62	keeganareeve/kr-ocr-project Was developed in order to contribute to the COLRC online database.	10	Experimental	2	Python
63	ohidurbappy/tabular-data-digitalizer Project to convert handwritten tabular data to excel table	10	Experimental	2	Java

Comparisons in this category

deepdoctection and docproc (76 vs 42) ICDAR-2019-SROIE and ICDAR-2019-RRC-SROIE (51 vs 40)