Open Source OCR 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.

OpenKM Community Edition is a free Document Management System (DMS) that helps businesses control the production, storage, management and distribution of electronic documents, boosting effectiveness and productivity. It integrates document management, collaboration and advanced search into one easy-to-use solution, including administration tools for user roles, access control, security levels, activity logs and automation setup. With OpenKM Community Edition you can: Collect information from any digital source. Collaborate with colleagues on documents and projects. Capitalize on accumulated knowledge by locating documents and information sources. Control business processes with an embedded workflow engine. Automate tasks. For a complete feature list visit: http://goo.gl/au8cQy

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

OCR c++ library. Include: contour recognition; vectorisation; matrix letter feature recognition; auto page segmentation and detect rotation; SS3 ASM core; XML base; web-based GUI; 99,6% printed Unicode text recognition; letter base up to 1200 letters.