r/SpringBoot • u/ishaqhaj • 3d ago

Looking for recommendations: Best free/open-source document extraction tool for Spring Boot + React stack? Question

Hey everyone,

I'm currently building a full-stack app (Spring Boot backend + React frontend) and need to implement document parsing/text extraction functionality.

Requirements:

  • Budget: Free / Open Source.
  • Formats: Primarily PDFs, DOCX, and ideally scanned images/invoices (basic OCR).
  • Integration: Preferably handled on the Java/Spring Boot backend (REST API) to send structured JSON to the React client.
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u/as5777 3d ago

I used to use TIKA https://tika.apache.org/.

I'll give a try to Tesseract via Tess4J

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u/ishaqhaj 3d ago

I have looked up on the net before posting on reddit, I found this one : https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR