A free tool to OCR a PDF and add a text "layer" in the original file, making a searchable PDF. Use only open source tools. Please tip! - LeoFCardoso/pdf2pdfocr
ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
BentoPDF - Free Online PDF Tools
Free PDF tools that run in your browser. Merge, split, compress, convert - all free, no signup, privacy-first.
Add alt text to images in your PDFs using Firefox | Firefox Help
Image alt text is crucial for document accessibility. Learn how to create it manually or with our Firefox AI-powered feature for PDF files.
SOTA OCR with Core ML and dots.ocr
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
PP-OCRv6 - a PaddlePaddle Collection
From 1.5M to 34.5M Parameters, Surpassing Billion-Scale VLMs on OCR Tasks
TechAccess: AI-Ready America
To save a PDF of this solicitation, select Print to PDF in your browser's print options.
Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface
This draft was released March 15, 2006. Please email comments to bretworrydream.com. You can also download the PDF.
Unsloth AI on Twitter / X
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-OCR 2. 🐋The new 3B model achieves SOTA visual, document and OCR understanding.DeepEncoder V2 is introduced which enables the model scan images in same logical order as humans, boosting OCR accuracy.Instead of traditional vision LLMs which read an… pic.twitter.com/9WYaSGD7XU— Unsloth AI (@UnslothAI) January 27, 2026
GLM-OCR Technical Report
GLM-OCR is an efficient 0.9B-parameter compact multimodal model designed for real-world document understanding. It combines a 0.4B-parameter CogViT visual encoder with a 0.5B-parameter GLM...
Okular - The Universal Document Viewer
Multi-platform, fast and packed with features, Okular allows you to read PDF documents, comics and EPub books, browse images, visualize Markdown documents, and much more.
jphastings/dotpostcard
A tool for archiving & converting scans of postcards, and information about them.
Label Maker
Pick a label sheet, drop in your images, and download a print-ready PDF that lines up with the die-cuts. Entirely client-side — your images never leave the browser.
Manu ・ Manuscript Annotation & Visualisation
A collaborative platform for annotating, transcribing, and visualising historical manuscripts. Built on IIIF and W3C Web Annotations.
OpenAIReview — AI-Powered Academic Paper Reviewer
we recommend using uv, and there are additional guidelines for best results with PDF inputs
Whey‽ (@whey.party)
red dwarf now supports full text search using @mackuba.eu 's lycan https://tangled.org/@mackuba.eu/lycan
My agency as a person seeking to read a PDF has very little to do with the PDF file format; I have agency because feature-complete PDF readers are a ubiquitous commodity. The freedom afforded by #ATProto is no freedom at all while Bluesky remains a supermassive singularity within the network.
Jay 🦋
We knew from the start we can’t get everything right. Moderation is a hard problem, and it’s impossible to please everyone. So we built a protocol where you always have the right to leave. If you don’t trust us, or don’t like our decisions, you deserve the right to choose an alternative.
