Open Source Scanner Software

Visit NAPS2's home page at www.naps2.com. NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Scan your documents from WIA- and TWAIN-compatible scanners, organize the pages as you like, and save them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and other file formats. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. NAPS2 is currently available in over 40 different languages. Want to see NAPS2 in your preferred language? Help translate! See the wiki for more details.

A GUI to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan. gscan2pdf should work on almost any Linux/BSD machine.

gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract. Features include: - Import PDF documents and images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots - Process multiple images and documents in one go - Manual or automatic recognition area definition - Recognize to plain text or to hOCR documents - Recognized text displayed directly next to the image - Post-process the recognized text, including spellchecking - Generate PDF documents from hOCR documents **Note**: This page is only a mirror for the downloads. Development is happening on github at https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader, release binaries are also posted there.

Provides optical character recognition (OCR) solutions for Vietnamese language.

phpSANE is a web-based frontend for SANE written in HTML/PHP so you can scan with your web-browser. It also supports OCR.

Linux-intelligent-ocr-solution Lios is a free and open source software for converting print in to text using either scanner or a camera, It can also produce text out of scanned images from other sources such as Pdf, Image, Folder containing Images or screenshot. Program is given total accessibility for visually impaired. A Tesseract Trainer GUI is also shipped with this package. Forum : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lios Video Tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn29o8rxtRe1zS1r2-yGm1DNMOZCgdU0i Tesseract Training Tutorial (beta) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpCld4cdtk Source Code Github : https://github.com/Nalin-x-Linux/lios-3 Gitlab : https://gitlab.com/Nalin-x-Linux/lios-3 User guide is available in download page

https://formread.org FormRead is a completely free OMR (optical mark recognition) web software for scanning and grading user-filled, multiple choice forms. Create your formats with any of your office or drawing tools, scan them and parameterize their coordinates in an easy way. Once you have parameterized your form, you can print many of them, give it to your students/respondents, scan and recognize them with formread, and you can finally export the data in your preferred formats (excel, pdf, csv)

A GUI for OCR programs.

Optical Character Recognition in JS for Browser is based on ocrad.js. OCR for Browser is a free extension and You can use this application to extract text from any image you supply. Just upload your image files. OCR for Browser takes either a JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG. ========= Get OCR for Android (Beta release) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ulm.ocr ========= Add-on for Opera: http://bit.ly/1F0E0wP ========= Release 1.0.1 For safety reasons, I disabled the possibility to import an image from url. Finally, I wish to inform you that you can write or draw directly on the canvas to get the subsequent character recognition and text extraction

Tested for Ubuntu Maverick - Create Audiobooks from eBooks, text or pictures. - Read eBooks or text aloud while scrolling through pages

Akshara Malayalam OCR is a project for the development of an OCR for printed and handwritten documents in Malayalam language. The inspiration is from similar OCR softwares in other languages etc.

Graphical interface for Cuneiform OCR

An omnifont OCR engine. The long-term goal is recognition of formulas.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) utility

NB: openDIAS is moving away from SF.net. Please visit the homepage link for the most update to date information, support and files. Document Imaging Archive System. Home document imaging, with OCR. Scan documents (with SANE) or import ODF documents, assign tags. Use openDIAS to store all our letters, bills, statements, etc in a convenient, safe and easily retrievable way.

Tifftool is a high-performance tool to clean scanned documents in preparation for onscreen display or for OCR. Features include skew correction, orientation correction, despeckle, page alignment, split pages and batch processing.