ocrmymail VS OCRmyPDF

Compare ocrmymail vs OCRmyPDF and see what are their differences.

ocrmymail

OCRmyMail is an SMTP server relay that adds an OCR text layer to PDF mail attachments and sends them to the original recipient. (by DenBeke)

OCRmyPDF

OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched (by ocrmypdf)
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ocrmymail OCRmyPDF
1 77
1 12,002
- 4.9%
0.0 9.5
almost 3 years ago 3 days ago
Go Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Mozilla Public License 2.0
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ocrmymail

Posts with mentions or reviews of ocrmymail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-12.
  • OCR through mail attachments
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 12 Apr 2021
    OCRmyMail is an SMTP server relay that adds an OCR text layer to PDF mail attachments and sends them to the original recipient. OCRmyPDF is used to do the heavy lifting a.k.a perform the OCR.

OCRmyPDF

Posts with mentions or reviews of OCRmyPDF. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-14.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ocrmymail and OCRmyPDF you can also consider the following projects:

inbucket - Disposable webmail server (similar to Mailinator) with built in SMTP, POP3, RESTful servers; no DB required.

PaddleOCR - Awesome multilingual OCR toolkits based on PaddlePaddle (practical ultra lightweight OCR system, support 80+ languages recognition, provide data annotation and synthesis tools, support training and deployment among server, mobile, embedded and IoT devices)

chasquid - SMTP (email) server with a focus on simplicity, security, and ease of operation [mirror]

pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.

imap-pdf-ocr - IMAP Processor for running OCR on every PDF

tesserocr - A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API

go-smtp - 📤 An SMTP client & server library written in Go

Paperless-ng - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

invoice2data - Extract structured data from PDF invoices

pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash: