OCR: Text recognition & pipelines
Text-line and region recognisers, plus detection and recognition pipelines for documents, manga and text in photographs.
Image-to-Text • Updated • 13Note Hub mirror of Benjamin Kiessling’s multilingual Kraken recogniser for print and handwriting; needs Kraken 7.1+ and line segmentation. Usage: https://zenodo.org/records/21788410
PaddlePaddle/PP-OCRv6_medium_rec
Image-to-Text • Updated • 55.6k • 29Note 19M-parameter multilingual text recogniser; supply crops or use PaddleOCR detection for whole pages. Usage: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
kha-white/manga-ocr-base
Image-to-Text • Updated • 945k • 180Note Japanese manga text, including vertical writing and furigana; supply one text region, since blank images can produce invented text. Usage: https://github.com/kha-white/manga-ocr
JustANormalTinkerer/hayai-ocr-v2
Image-to-Text • 0.2B • Updated • 3.45k • 7Note Small CJK/English recogniser for cropped, stylised and vertical text; the v2 repository hosts v2.1 and requires custom model code.
microsoft/trocr-base-printed
Image-to-Text • 0.3B • Updated • 214k • 218Note Printed-English recognition with a short Transformers example; requires line crops and does not reconstruct page layout.
nvidia/nemotron-ocr-v2
Image-to-Text • Updated • 1.37k • 255Note Detection, recognition and layout for documents and natural-scene images; use the full pipeline under the NVIDIA Open Model License.