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OCR (optical character recognition)
Tesseract is an open-source OCR engine (C++, Apache-2.0) that extracts text from images using LSTM-based and legacy engines, supporting over 100 languages and multiple output formats.
AI agent harness engineering / education
An open-source Chinese textbook/tutorial that teaches building a Pi-style coding agent from scratch through 15 executable checkpoints in TypeScript.
AI coding agent / terminal CLI
Terminal-based AI coding agent that autonomously writes and edits code using OpenAI models.
agent harness / multi-agent orchestration
DeerFlow is an open-source Python super-agent harness that orchestrates sub-agents, memory, sandboxes, and tools to autonomously execute long-horizon research, coding, and creation tasks.
OCR library for Apple platforms
Deprecated Swift OCR library using a neural network for short alphanumeric codes on iOS/macOS.
AI agent orchestration / coding agent workspace
Multica is an open-source self-hostable workspace for assigning issues to AI coding agents and tracking their work like human teammates.
AI engineering education/resources
Repository with resources and supporting materials for Chip Huyen's book 'AI Engineering' (2025), covering end-to-end adaptation of foundation models to real-world problems.
AI ebook/document translation
A Python command-line tool that uses AI translation APIs to generate bilingual epub/txt/md/srt/pdf books.
image-to-3D / procedural Three.js generation
Rebuilds an object in a reference image as a code-only, procedural, animation-ready Three.js model using AI agents.
AI coding agent to IM messaging bridge
Bridge local AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex) to messaging platforms like Feishu/Lark, DingTalk, Slack, Telegram, Discord, LINE, WeChat Work.
document OCR / layout-aware extraction
Chandra OCR converts images and PDFs into structured HTML/Markdown/JSON with layout preservation, handling complex tables, forms, and handwriting.
AI agent orchestration / operations control plane
A self-hosted TypeScript/SQLite dashboard and API that dispatches, monitors, and cost-tracks tasks across external AI coding-agent runtimes such as Claude Code and Codex.
browser automation for AI agents
A tiny Rust CLI that drives a real browser over the Chrome DevTools Protocol for coding agents, exposing shell-native browser commands without LLM or MCP requirements.
AI browser automation
BrowserSkill connects AI agents to your real, logged-in Chrome or Edge browser via a CLI and extension so agents can automate web tasks without interrupting your work.
git history browsing
pomber/git-history is a web tool and browser/VS Code extension that lets you quickly browse the commit history of a file in any GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket or local git repository.
Git terminal UI
A terminal UI for interacting with Git: staging, committing, branching, rebasing, and reviewing history.
browser speech recognition / in-browser ASR
A browser-based web app that runs Whisper speech recognition locally using Transformers.js.
project management / Scrum
Paca is a self-hosted, AI-native project management platform for Scrum teams where humans and AI agents collaborate on boards, sprints, and goals, customizable via plugins.
reinforcement learning education
Lecture notes, tutorial tasks with solutions, and videos for a university reinforcement learning course.
agent output review / feedback loop
A local single Go binary that renders review interfaces (markdown plans, git diffs, a proxied running app, static HTML artifacts) for coding-agent output and routes inline comments back to the agent.
instance segmentation
Implementation of SOLO and SOLOv2, box-free fully convolutional instance segmentation models.
agentic development environment
Emdash is a desktop app that runs multiple CLI coding agents in parallel, each isolated in its own Git worktree, with diff review, pull requests, CI checks and issue-tracker integration.
self-hosted VPN control plane / mesh VPN
An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server, which coordinates WireGuard mesh VPN nodes.
mesh VPN / secure network access
Tailscale's open-source client daemon and CLI that build an identity-aware WireGuard mesh VPN with NAT traversal and a coordination service.