gocr ☆

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Description:
Optical Character Recognition (OCR), converts images back to text

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Other

Tags: ocr image-processing cli text-recognition scanner

Install: brew install gocr

About:
Gocr is an open-source optical character recognition (OCR) command-line tool and library. It analyzes scanned images to identify and extract text characters, making printed documents searchable and editable. Its main value is providing a lightweight, scriptable solution for digitizing text from images without requiring complex setup.

Key Features:

Command-line interface for batch processing
Supports multiple image formats including PBM, PGM, and PPM
Includes a library for integration into other applications
Configurable recognition parameters and character sets
Cross-platform compatibility

Use Cases:

Converting scanned documents or PDFs into machine-readable text
Automating text extraction from images in scripts and pipelines
Digitizing printed archives for search and indexing
Processing license plates or simple machine-readable codes

Alternatives:

Tesseract – More accurate and feature-rich, but heavier dependency and larger footprint
OCRmyPDF – Specialized for PDFs, wraps Tesseract for document workflows

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 13, 2024 11:51am		2	VERSION_BUMP	7b24a1f4