# Batch OCR Tools?

**URL:** <https://demodisc.zone/t/batch-ocr-tools/508>\
**Category:** Crowdsourcing\
**Tags:** scan, preservation, ocr\
**Created:** [August 30, 2026, 1:57am UTC](https://demodisc.zone/t/batch-ocr-tools/508 "2026-08-30T01:57:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![EposVox](https://demodisc.zone/user_avatar/demodisc.zone/eposvox/32/15_2.png) [@EposVox](https://demodisc.zone/u/EposVox)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 1:57am UTC](https://demodisc.zone/t/batch-ocr-tools/508/1 "2026-08-30T01:57:42Z")

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Anyone have a recommended (Mac or Linux) program for bulk running OCR across a bunch of images? I want it to read a folder of scans, transcribe the texts and put in a text file next to each appropriate image.

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**Author:** ![agizmo](https://demodisc.zone/user_avatar/demodisc.zone/agizmo/32/38_2.png) [@agizmo](https://demodisc.zone/u/agizmo)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://demodisc.zone/t/batch-ocr-tools/508/2 "2026-08-30T23:04:40Z")

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Tesseract is the opensource project many OCR tools are based on. Someone may have created a GUI or batch script to do what you want.

> **[GitHub - tesseract-ocr/tesseract: Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)**
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> Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

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**Author:** ![EposVox](https://demodisc.zone/user_avatar/demodisc.zone/eposvox/32/15_2.png) [@EposVox](https://demodisc.zone/u/EposVox)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 10:49pm UTC](https://demodisc.zone/t/batch-ocr-tools/508/3 "2026-08-31T22:49:17Z")

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This seems to come most highly-recommended and I apparently already had it installed on my desktop, so I shall give it a go once I do my scans!