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OCR

OCR is an OCR mobile app, available on Android: text recognition (OCR).

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

OCR is an OCR mobile app, available on Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: text recognition (OCR).

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “OCR based on Tesseract 5” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “A modern, privacy-focused Android application for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), capable of extracting text from images in over 120 languages.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of OCR is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (Apache-2.0) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Listing written automatically from verified facts.

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