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TrulyFreeOCR

Business-friendly Self-contained OCR with MRC compression

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TrulyFreeOCR is a self-contained Java CLI that turns scanned PDFs and images into searchable, compressed PDF documents. It applies MRC compression (PNG background + JBIG2/G4 foreground) to reduce file size while preserving readability — no Ghostscript, no Python runtime, no cloud APIs needed. A single fat JAR + bundled Tesseract is all you need. Apache 2.0 licensed for worry-free commercial use.

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