Capture2text might be a bit more popular than Paperless. We know about 4 links to it since March 2021 and only 3 links to Paperless. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
If you seek something simple, non-commandline, easy to use and with a GUI, then Capture2Text is the best I know so far. Source: over 2 years ago
Capture2Text is FOSS. It uses Tesseract as it's OCR engine, which is great as you can use different language data files to find the one that is the most accurate for your purposes. Source: over 2 years ago
Capture2Text is the simplest solution and it works surprisingly well with the Cold Steel/Hajimari text boxes... Once it runs in the background press a previously assigned hotkey and select the area on the screen to be captured. I recommend deactivating its popup window, you just want the text to be copied into the clipboard. Source: almost 3 years ago
You should have a look at Capture2Text and ShareX. They offer OCR translation (ShareX links to google translator in your browser, when you do OCR Translation, I think). Source: about 3 years ago
A synology wouldn't be able to run a document management server software though, would it? Specifically Paperless (https://marinersoftware.com/product/paperless/) and MySQL. Source: about 3 years ago
I went through this a decade or so ago when I realized when I was moving that a quarter of the boxes I moved were full of paper. I am currently storing everything in Mariner's Paperless. Https://marinersoftware.com/product/paperless/e Everything is in PDF so easily exportable but the scanner integration and the workflow make everything easier. Source: about 3 years ago
I've been a big user of paperless from Mariner software. https://marinersoftware.com/product/paperless/. Source: about 3 years ago
TextSniper - Instantly extract any text from your Mac's screen
Papermerge DMS - Open source document management system designed for archiving and retrieving your digital documents. Instead of having piles of paper documents all over your desk, office or drawers - you can quickly scan and upload them to Papermerge DMS.
Easy Screen OCR - Easy Screen OCR helps users capture screenshot and grab text from images.
Mayan EDMS - Document management without the headaches.
dpScreenOCR - Program to recognize text on screen
Paperless-NG - A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents - jonaswinkler/paperless-ng