Open-source offline OCR for screenshots and batch document processing
Overview
- Purpose
- Open-source offline OCR for screenshots and batch document processing
- Category
- Office
- Official site
- https://github.com/hiroi-sora/Umi-OCR (opens in a new tab)
Main features
- Recognize text in screenshots and local images
- Batch-process images and documents
- Run OCR on scanned PDFs or extract existing text
- Export recognized text or searchable PDFs
Best for
Suited to organizing text from screenshots, scanned material and batches of images on a computer.
Things to know
- Download the app and choose a runtime and recognition engine supported by the operating system
- Check complex layouts, blurred images and specialist terms against the original
FAQ
- Can it recognize text offline?
- Yes. The official project provides offline OCR engines.
- Can it process scanned PDFs?
- Yes. The official project lists document OCR and searchable PDF output.