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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.
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.
AI coding agent / terminal CLI
Terminal-based AI coding agent that autonomously writes and edits code using OpenAI models.
desktop offline OCR
Umi-OCR is a free, open-source offline desktop OCR application supporting screenshot recognition, batch image recognition, PDF recognition, QR codes, and formula recognition.
AI coding agent / terminal-based coding assistant
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that runs in the terminal, offering an interactive CLI for coding tasks.
LLM application development / AI agents
Eino is an LLM application development framework in Go that offers reusable components, an agent development kit, and graph-based composition for building AI applications.
AI coding agents / agent harness
Pi is an AI agent toolkit that provides a unified multi-provider LLM API, agent runtime with tool calling and state management, a TUI library, and an interactive coding agent CLI.
document OCR / parsing
Baidu's Unlimited-OCR is a vision-language model for one-shot, long-horizon document parsing and OCR.
document OCR / layout parsing
dots.ocr is a multilingual document layout parsing model that turns document images into structured outputs like markdown and SVG using a single vision-language model.
PDF editing
A free, open-source Windows desktop PDF editor for viewing, annotating, OCR, merging/splitting, signing, and filling forms.
AI agent framework / personal assistant
Hermes Agent is a self-improving, self-hosted personal AI agent with a built-in learning loop, persistent memory, skill creation, and multi-platform chat access.