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OCRmyPDF

Open-source command-line tool that adds a searchable OCR text layer to scanned PDFs, using Tesseract by default.

  • OCRmyPDF project
  • Local only
  • Free, open source

Official site · Source code

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    Documents & OCR
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Facts

Vendor
OCRmyPDF project
Approach
Parsers & APIs
Where it runs
Runs only on your own hardware
Interface
Command line, API
Skill level
Advanced: command line, node graphs or self-hosting
Price
Free, open source
Pricing notes
Open source.
Source code
Open source (MPL-2.0)
GitHub stars
35.1k (19 Oct 2026)
Last verified
19 Oct 2026

Price from github.com, 19 Oct 2026.

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