open source

Download, use and adapt our software. Free for any purpose.

scalable

Your solution for mass digitisation and creating large corpora of full texts.

flexible

Define your own OCR Workflows. Use OCR-D in you command line or try out various implementations, e.g. OCR-D in Kitodo or OCR‑D in OCR4all.

community driven

Benefit from a helpful community. Join our regular online meetings and use our chat. Connect with service providers and our partners for your individual needs.

Get Started

• Quick Start
  • Install OCR‑D in a few steps
• Setup Guide
  • Advanced instructions and on how to install the OCR‑D stack
• User Guide
  • Instructions how to use OCR‑D components
• Workflows
  • Steps of an OCR‑D-workflow with sample workflows
• Models
  • Learn how to use different models in OCR‑D

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

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• OCR‑D Decision Log
  • Recent decisions on software development
• OCR‑D Specifications
  • OCR‑D Specifications for CLI, METS, PAGE etc.
• OCR‑D/core API documentation
  • Python API documentation of core implementation
• OCR‑D development best practices
  • Practical information on distributed development of software and specifications in OCR‑D
• Ground Truth
  • Ground Truth corpus and special corpora
• Ground Truth Guidelines
  • Guidelines for Ground Truth
• PAGE-XML format documentation
  • Documentation for the PAGE-XML format
• QUIVER
  • Quality Overview for OCR‑D Repositories and Workflows

• About OCR‑D
  • Learn more about OCR‑D
• Community
  • Communication channels and participation
• Projects
  • Information about our implementation and module projects in phase III
• Reference Data
  • Ground Truth corpus and special corpora
• Glossary
  • Glossary of technical terms used in OCR‑D
• Contact
  • Contact us!