@jessebot@social.smallhack.org
2026-03-22 13:16 UTC
Hey Linux friends, what's your favorite OCR (optical character recognition) tool that doesn't use LLMs/AI? Bonus points if it works from the command line :)
Update: I've gone with tesseract! Thanks everyone for helping! :heart_cyber:
#linux #ocr #noai
Replies (3)
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@AndyW@chaos.social 2026-03-22 13:19
@jessebot Tesseract, of course... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)
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@jspath55@chaos.social 2026-03-22 13:28
@jessebot I use OcrMyPdf, though I have no current awareness of LLM taint. https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ I just wish the "--remove-background" flag still worked.
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@scudo@antani.cyou 2026-04-02 18:59
@jessebot@social.smallhack.org I use ocrmypdf on Fedora, it runs locally from the command line