A curated list of awesome projects to simplify and improve paper and document scanning.
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Aug 4, 2026
A curated list of awesome projects to simplify and improve paper and document scanning.
Open-source batch OCR workbench — a free, local alternative to ABBYY FineReader. Powered by Ollama + GLM-OCR + PP-DocLayoutV3, ~0.5s/page on RTX 4090. Three-panel editor, layout-aware, PDF/image batch processing, Markdown/Word export. 批量OCR工作台,纯本地运行,免费平替ABBYY,适合书籍文档数字化。
Turn a phone flip-through video, photos, or a PDF of a book into a clean, proofread EPUB/PDF/Markdown — local vision-LLM digitization with a web GUI you can drive from your phone.
Web-powered digitization of George Herbert's shape poetry in "The Temple"
Stereoscopic overhead book scanner: twin Sony A6000 measure the page in 3D and flatten it computationally - no laser projector, no moving parts. Dense passive stereo + developable-surface constraint cuts residual distortion from 8.74 px to 0.08 px on a 60 mm hardback.
View, edit, and organize PDF documents on Windows with this fast, offline, and open-source application.
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