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Top 9 Python text-detection Projects
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manga-image-translator
Translate manga/image 一键翻译各类图片内文字 https://cotrans.touhou.ai/ (no longer working)
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InfluxDB
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doctr
docTR (Document Text Recognition) - a seamless, high-performing & accessible library for OCR-related tasks powered by Deep Learning.
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AdelaiDet
AdelaiDet is an open source toolbox for multiple instance-level detection and recognition tasks.
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This project builds upon the excellent CRAFT text detection model by CLOVA AI Research, while making significant architectural and functional improvements:
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comic-translate
Desktop app for automatically translating comics - BDs, Manga, Manhwa, Fumetti and more in a variety of formats (Image, Pdf, Epub, cbr, cbz, etc) and in multiple languages.
Project mention: Show HN: Instantly Translate Manga – TranslateManga | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-26In addition to lots of commercial competition, there's also a halfway decent open source comic translation app that uses automatic OCR + LLMs (byok).
https://github.com/ogkalu2/comic-translate
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keras-ocr
A packaged and flexible version of the CRAFT text detector and Keras CRNN recognition model.
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Image2CAD
An application to translate raster image of CAD drawing sheet to a user editable DXF format.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Decimal number detection
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[N] MMOCR: A Toolbox for Text Detection, Recognition, and Understanding Based on PyTorch
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Index
What are some of the best open-source text-detection projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | manga-image-translator | 8,415 |
| 2 | doctr | 5,312 |
| 3 | mmocr | 4,620 |
| 4 | AdelaiDet | 3,451 |
| 5 | CRAFT-pytorch | 3,268 |
| 6 | comic-translate | 1,963 |
| 7 | keras-ocr | 1,460 |
| 8 | Image2CAD | 135 |
| 9 | vkit | 23 |
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