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TrulyFreeOCR: Java OCR Pipeline Ships as Single Fat JAR

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

TrulyFreeOCR is an open-source Java tool that converts scanned PDFs into searchable, highly-compressed PDFs using MRC compression. It runs fully offline on CPU with zero native dependencies, bundling everything into a single fat JAR. The tool supports 7 bundled language models and concurrent OCR, targeting enterprise deployments where GPL dependencies are prohibited.

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A practical solution for businesses needing OCR without GPL baggage, but Tesseract-based accuracy limits it to clean scans.
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