Chinese OCR
Lightweight Chinese OCR tool with DBNet+CRNN+angle classifier (total model 4.7M), supporting ncnn/mnn/tnn inference and providing CLI, web service, and multi-platform demos.
Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.
Apache-2.0, actively maintained, supports ONNX/OpenVINO/TensorRT backends; pick for broader platform integration and permissive licensing.
📄 Awesome OCR multiple programing languages toolkits based on ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, MNN, PaddlePaddle, TensorRT and PyTorch.
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
MIT, pure Python, easy to retrain; pick for English/general OCR or prototyping, not for optimized Chinese OCR.
A packaged and flexible version of the CRAFT text detector and Keras CRNN recognition model.
An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.
Only Chinese character recognition on cropped text lines; pick when you already have text detection and need a simple recognition model.
(CRNN) Chinese Characters Recognition.
Only single-character detection; pick when you need character boxes rather than full OCR pipeline.
🔥Char detection base on crnn 字符（单字）检测基于CRNN
Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.
Deployable Chinese OCR web service/API; pick for quick deployment without coding integration, at cost of heavier weight than seed.
开源易用的中文离线OCR，识别率媲美大厂，并且提供了易用的web页面及web的接口，方便人类日常工作使用或者其他程序来调用~
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calls chineseocr_lite “choose for ultra-lightweight Chinese OCR on edge devices with tiny models.”
OCR model that handles complex tables, forms, handwriting with full layout.
calls chineseocr_lite “lightweight Chinese-only OCR pipeline, choose for mobile/edge Chinese text recognition”
Official code implementation of General OCR Theory: Towards OCR-2.0 via a Unified End-to-end Model
calls chineseocr_lite “lightweight Chinese-only OCR library; good for mobile/edge Chinese OCR”
PandaOCR - 多功能OCR图文识别+翻译+朗读+弹窗+公式+表格+图床+搜图+二维码