Frog: OCR Tool for Linux

1. normcap

   1 18 2,105 8.0 Python

   OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images

   

2. Judoscale

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   Save 47% on cloud hosting with autoscaling that just works. Judoscale integrates with Django, FastAPI, Celery, and RQ to make autoscaling easy and reliable. Save big, and say goodbye to request timeouts and backed-up task queues.

   

3. tessdata

   2 12 6,727 2.8

   Trained models with fast variant of the "best" LSTM models + legacy models

   

   Appears to be a nice wrapper around Tesseract:

   https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)

   The demo of course works perfectly on a Mac as this is already built into Ventura.

     In November 2020, Brewster Kahle from the Internet Archive praised Tesseract saying:

4. doctr

   3 13 4,560 8.8 Python

   docTR (Document Text Recognition) - a seamless, high-performing & accessible library for OCR-related tasks powered by Deep Learning.

   

   There's also DocTR which can do text detection and extraction out of the box.

   It's command line driven but can display the detected text as an overlay of the document.

   https://github.com/mindee/doctr

5. OCRmyPDF

   4 82 27,671 9.1 Python

   OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

   

6. PaddleOCR

   5 69 48,284 9.5 Python

   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)

   

   I’ve had good results from paddle ocr.

   https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

7. flameshot

   6 234 25,985 7.1 C++

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

   

   Cool! I've seen similar ideas before and made my own inspired by these some years ago. It's a simple bash script based on [flameshot](https://flameshot.org/) for taking the screenshot and Tesseract:

       #!/usr/bin/env bash

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