LibGuides: OCR Tools: Programmatic Tools

Programmatic OCR

The tools in the list below are programmatic OCR tools for users familiar with the command line.

PDF Scraper
A Python tool to extract and analyze text from PDFs.
PyOCR
A Python wrapper for Tesseract and Cuneiform.
Neural Network OCR
Trains a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural network to perform OCR.
doc2text
Detect text blocks and OCR poorly scanned PDFs in bulk. Python module available via pip.
tesserocr
A Python wrapper for the Tesseract API.