Surya
Multilingual document OCR and layout analysis toolkit
Surya is an open-source OCR toolkit that performs text detection, recognition, layout analysis, and reading order detection in over 90 languages. It runs locally and is designed for document understanding pipelines.
Key features
- 90+ language OCR
- Layout and table detection
- Reading order analysis
- Runs offline
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-3.0 license
- Mature project with 21.2k GitHub stars
- Written in Python
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