OCRopus

OCRopus
Developer(s)Thomas Breuel, DFKI
Initial release9 April 2007 (2007-04-09)
Stable release
1.3.3  / 16 December 2017 (16 December 2017)
Preview release
ocropus4
Repository
Written inC++ and Python
Operating systemFreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X
TypeOptical character recognition
LicenseApache License v2.0
Websiteocropus.github.io

OCRopus is a free document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) system released under the Apache License v2.0 with a very modular design using command-line interfaces.

OCRopus is developed under the lead of Thomas Breuel from the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Kaiserslautern, Germany and was sponsored by Google.