TranslatedOCR software, free and offline. Open-source, free offline OCR software. Supports screenshots/batch importing of images, PDF document recognition, excluding watermarks/headers and footers, and scanning/generating QR codes. Has built-in multi-language libraries.
- paddleocr
- ocr
- ocr-python
- umi-ocr
On-device Vision Model - a fully offline, free vision pipeline that gives text-only models (e.g. DeepSeek) image understanding and multilingual OCR through an OpenAI-compatible local API. Only tokens are needed: no API key, no subscription, no cloud cost. Recommended for native speakers of Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean.