There are a lot of underutilized technologies in common PC apps that are really useful once you discover them. One on my list is Object Character Recognition (OCR ...

Windows-focused fork of Typhoon OCR. Gradio demo for PDF/image OCR to Markdown/HTML with layout & table extraction. Uses OpenAI-compatible API or vLLM via WSL2.

A simple, free tool for extracting text from scanned PDFs and images using OCR, and converting images to PDFs. It processes files locally in the browser, ensuring privacy and security while enabling ...

Abstract: Text recognition has become a favored topic in the field of computer vision. Research in this field has great potential to benefit many domains worldwide. Examples include text visualization ...