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TrulyFreeOCR
Business-friendly Self-contained OCR with MRC compression
6 followers
Business-friendly Self-contained OCR with MRC compression
6 followers
TrulyFreeOCR is a self-contained Java CLI that turns scanned PDFs and images into searchable, compressed PDF documents. It applies MRC compression (PNG background + JBIG2/G4 foreground) to reduce file size while preserving readability — no Ghostscript, no Python runtime, no cloud APIs needed. A single fat JAR + bundled Tesseract is all you need. Apache 2.0 licensed for worry-free commercial use.
the single fat jar with tesseract bundled is a nice touch, dropped it on a stack of old scanned contracts and the search worked right away. file size dropped more than i expected with the mrc compression too.
@pekkavfolufeb8 Thank you for trying it! Glad to hear it works for you.
honestly this looks super useful for anyone dealing with scanned archives, especially that no ghostscript dependency. one thing though, would be great if it could output to PDF/A format by default so the files are more archival friendly and pass long term preservation checks. that would honestly make it a no brainer for libraries and government use cases.
@sema1024768 Thank you for trying it and offering the idea! Let me think about it and see how it can be done.