arcships / light-ocr
Fast, offline OCR for Node.js & C++. PP-OCRv6 with Core ML / WebGPU hardware acceleration — recognize text in images with confidence scores & coordinates. npm: @arcships/light-ocr
Why this job: works in the areas we cover, but does not say which job it does
What it does
- Local processing. Images, PDFs, and OCR results stay on your machine.
- One package to install. The model, OCR runtime, PDF renderer, and Chinese fallback font are included through the npm package's platform dependency.
- No secondary downloads. Installation and runtime need no postinstall fetch, compiler, model download, PDF engine download, or font download.
- Useful output. Every line includes recognized text, confidence, and its position in the original image.
- Hardware acceleration by default. Auto tries Core ML first on macOS 15+ Apple Silicon, and WebGPU first on the Linux and Windows builds below.
Get started
npm install @arcships/light-ocr - Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 35 days ago
- Stars
- 661
- +4 this week
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v0.5.8
- Released 49 days ago
- Built with
- C++
- 64% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- Not stated
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 88% closed
- 1 still open
- Pull requests
- 59 merged
- 1 waiting
- Releases
- 11
- 11 in the last year
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- C++ 64%
- JavaScript 24%
- CMake 8%
- Objective-C++ 3%
Topics
- apple-silicon
- computer-vision
- coreml
- cpp17
- d3d12
- image-processing
- machine-learning
- napi
- native-addon
- nodejs
- nvidia
- ocr
Project record
- JobOther AI tools
- StatusListed
- Commits176
- Forks59
- Watching4
- Stars in 28 days+27
- CreatedJul 14, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 8, 2026