The 10 Best Open Source OCR Tools in 2025


1. Tesseract

2. EasyOCR

3. Mistral

4. OCRopus

5. Doctr

6. Kraken

7. Surya OCR

8. CuneiForm

9. OCRmyPDF

10. OCR Space

However, “gratis” (free) often comes with legal and technical distinctions. These are the safest, ad-supported, and region-dependent methods: