Ucas-HaoranWei/GOT-OCR2.0 alternatives

end-to-end OCR model with similar capabilities, choose as a direct alternative with Apache-2.0 license

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

end-to-end OCR model, choose for one-shot long-horizon document parsing

Unlimited OCR Works: Welcome the Era of One-shot Long-horizon Parsing.

end-to-end OCR model with Apache-2.0 license, direct alternative

Visual Causal Flow

document image parsing model, direct alternative for formatting-aware extraction

The official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.

OCR-free document understanding transformer, choose for structured document parsing rather than raw text recognition

Official Implementation of OCR-free Document Understanding Transformer (Donut) and Synthetic Document Generator (SynthDoG), ECCV 2022

OCR via external vision language models, choose for cloud/API based extraction with multimodal quality

OCR & Document Extraction using vision models

traditional pipeline OCR engine, choose for lightweight, offline, multi-language OCR

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

text detection model only, choose it as a component in a detection+recognition pipeline

Official implementation of Character Region Awareness for Text Detection (CRAFT)

legacy Swift OCR library with limited accuracy, choose for simple iOS OCR without heavy dependencies

Fast and simple OCR library written in Swift

text detector in TensorFlow, narrower detection-only use

A tensorflow implementation of EAST text detector

Go binding for Tesseract, choose for Go services but requires separate Tesseract install

Go package for OCR (Optical Character Recognition), by using Tesseract C++ library

lightweight Chinese-only OCR pipeline, choose for mobile/edge Chinese text recognition

超轻量级中文ocr，支持竖排文字识别, 支持ncnn、mnn、tnn推理 ( dbnet(1.8M) + crnn(2.5M) + anglenet(378KB)) 总模型仅4.7M

legacy Chinese scene-text OCR pipeline, choose for research/legacy code

End-to-end Chinese scene-text detection and recognition with CTPN, CRNN, and CTC (legacy project).

cross-platform GUI OCR app, cannot be embedded as a library

树洞 OCR 文字识别（一款跨平台的 OCR 小工具）

offline GUI OCR application, not a model you can import

OCR software, free and offline. 开源、免费的离线OCR软件。支持截屏/批量导入图片，PDF文档识别，排除水印/页眉页脚，扫描/生成二维码。内置多国语言库。