yodaOCR

Free Beta

Developed by the ChronoScan Team · José Luis Rey, 2023

A free, powerful OCR engine designed for text recognition in documents, handwriting, and natural scenes — rivalling commercial alternatives.

Download yodaOCR Engine Beta 2024.03.14 Download UI (via ChronoScan installer)

Pre-release version — do not install on a production station or server

What is yodaOCR?

yodaOCR is a free OCR engine that performs optical character recognition on documents and images in natural scenes. It supports handwritten and printed Western text with competitive accuracy.

Main Features

Intuitive UI for easy navigation

Input from PDFs, image files, or clipboard

Recognises handwritten and Western printed text

Export to plain text or PDF

Completely free to use

yodaOCR text and handwriting recognition

OCR & Handwriting in one shot

Read typed text and handwritten annotations simultaneously in a single recognition pass — no separate workflows needed.

Natural scene recognition

yodaOCR recognises text in real-world images — signs, labels, photos — not just clean document scans.

Highly tolerant to background noise

yodaOCR maintains accurate recognition even in low-quality scans, complex backgrounds, and challenging image conditions.