Topics / #text-extraction

Text-extraction projects on GitHub

Extracting text content from PDFs and other documents.

As of , the most-starred Text-extraction projects on GitHub are tesseract (77K stars), pdf-inspector (19.7K stars) and liteparse (12.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Text-extraction repositories with 132.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was tesseract, with +11 stars in a day.

6Projects
132.9KStars in total
+38Stars in a day
Browse in the catalog →github.com/topics/text-extraction ↗

Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+11

tesseract

tesseract-ocr/tesseract · ★ 77K

Tesseract is an open source OCR engine: it ships as the libtesseract library plus a command line program called tesseract that reads text out of images.

+10

liteparse

run-llama/liteparse · ★ 12.9K

LiteParse is a standalone open-source PDF parser focused on fast, lightweight parsing: it extracts spatial text with bounding boxes and outputs Markdown, JSON, or Text, all running locally with no cloud or LLM calls.

+9

pdf-inspector

firecrawl/pdf-inspector · ★ 19.7K

A fast Rust library from Firecrawl that inspects PDFs: it classifies each file as text-based, scanned, image-based, or mixed, extracts position-aware text, and converts it to clean Markdown without OCR by default.

+6

SimdPaddleOCR

sdcb/SimdPaddleOCR · ★ 488

A pure C# OCR library for PP-OCRv6 models: it detects and recognizes text in images using hand-written SIMD-optimized kernels, and ships its own managed ONNX interpreter — no Paddle Inference, ONNX Runtime, or OpenCV native dependencies.

The all-time top

6 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · tesseract-ocr/tesseract

    tesseract

    Tesseract is an open source OCR engine: it ships as the libtesseract library plus a command line program called tesseract that reads text out of images.

    77K
  2. #2 · firecrawl/pdf-inspector

    pdf-inspector

    A fast Rust library from Firecrawl that inspects PDFs: it classifies each file as text-based, scanned, image-based, or mixed, extracts position-aware text, and converts it to clean Markdown without OCR by default.

    19.7K
  3. #3 · run-llama/liteparse

    liteparse

    LiteParse is a standalone open-source PDF parser focused on fast, lightweight parsing: it extracts spatial text with bounding boxes and outputs Markdown, JSON, or Text, all running locally with no cloud or LLM calls.

    12.9K
  1. 4

    zerox

    12.3Kgetomni-ai/zerox · TypeScript

    Zerox is an open-source OCR and document-extraction tool powered by vision models: give it a PDF, DOCX or image and it returns Markdown — or structured data if you provide a schema.

  2. 5

    pdf2htmlEX

    10.6Kcoolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX · HTML

    pdf2htmlEX is a PDF-to-HTML converter that keeps text and formatting intact. It renders PDF files as real, selectable HTML using modern Web technologies.

  3. 6

    SimdPaddleOCR

    488sdcb/SimdPaddleOCR · C#

    A pure C# OCR library for PP-OCRv6 models: it detects and recognizes text in images using hand-written SIMD-optimized kernels, and ships its own managed ONNX interpreter — no Paddle Inference, ONNX Runtime, or OpenCV native dependencies.

Often tagged together