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CLUSTER TEXT-WEB-CHARACTER · 30 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-15

OCR text extraction tools

This cluster comprises 28 products centered on optical character recognition, primarily web apps and utilities that extract editable text from uploaded images, scanned documents, and photos, with some supporting offline processing, translation, or AI-assisted features. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from — only four pre-index entries exist, so the cluster predates the index or most members are undated. Traction leaders by activity signal are ocr-openvino-int8-cpu, OCR-LAB, and image-whisperer-35, each with 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2021: 1FEB 2025: 1JUN 2026: 1AUG 2026: 18SEP 2026: 7OCT 2026: 2
JAN 2021OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 5 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled

Operator · 11 hobby · 2 open source · 7 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01jina-ocr-v13★21 days—hand-codedhobbyLocal web app that extracts structured text from document images using an OCR model and exports results as Markdown.
  2. 02anpr-uk2★25 days—hobbyWeb application that recognizes UK licence plates from photos using detection and OCR, and stores results.
  3. 03document_ocr0★8 daysliveDocument OCR web app that extracts text, classifies document types, and validates structured fields from uploaded identity and invoice images.
  4. 04Papertxt0★8 dayslivehobbyBrowser-based OCR tool that converts scanned book PDFs and images into editable text while preserving paragraph formatting.
  5. 05Smart-invoice-OCR0★20 days—hobbyWeb tool that extracts text from invoice and receipt images using OCR and displays the original, processed, and extracted text.
  6. 06replate0★7 days—hobbyLocal app that detects text in images and PDFs, removes it, and draws replacement text matching the original style.
  7. 07Happa0★24 days—hobbyWeb app that photographs text, recognizes it with OCR, and stores extracted text with metadata in a database.
  8. 08SyrMura-AI0★23 days—hobbyWeb app for analyzing historical archive images with OCR, automatic topic classification, keyword extraction, and confidence scoring in Kazakh and Russian.
  9. 09OCR0★2 moliveopen sourceOCR tool that extracts text from images or photos using an on-device engine, supporting many languages offline and copying results to the clipboard.
  10. 10ocr-openvino-int8-cpu0★1 mo—hobbyLocal OCR web application that extracts text from scanned documents and images on CPU-only hardware.
  11. 11OCR-LAB0★1 mo—hobbySelf-hosted OCR web app that extracts text from images with confidence scores and bounding boxes and exports results as JSON or CSV.
  12. 12image-whisperer-350★1 moliveai-builthobbyWeb app that extracts text content from uploaded photos, similar to ChatGPT's image understanding.
  13. 13Beav-OCR0★1 mo—Web app that extracts text from uploaded images via an OCR backend service and streams the result for copying.
  14. 14textractor0★4 moliveopen sourceTool that extracts text and LaTeX formulas from images using OCR and optional AI assistance.
  15. 15docformcratorv61★1 yrabandoned—ai-builtTool for creating document forms with partially functional OCR capabilities.
  16. 16Image To Text0★unknownliveWeb-based converter that extracts editable text from uploaded images or PDF documents using optical character recognition.
  17. 172txt0★unknownliveWeb tool that extracts text from uploaded images quickly for users needing fast digitization of visual content.
  18. 18OCR ChatGPT Site0★unknownliveai-builthobbyWeb app that extracts text from uploaded images and processes it using an AI language model.
  19. 19Image to Text Site0★unknownliveai-builtWeb tool that extracts editable text from uploaded images using optical character recognition.
  20. 20Vision API OCR0★unknownliveai-builtWeb tool that extracts text from uploaded images using optical character recognition.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.