Best ocr plugins for WordPress
The most popular ocr plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WebEquipe PDF Search leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of WP Tesseract (40+) and Ming's OCR Scanner (fewer than 10). All 4 plugins tagged “ocr” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 ocr plugins
- 1.
WebEquipe PDF SearchThe most installed ocr plugin, with 200+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
WP Tesseract40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.0.
- 3.
Ming's OCR ScannerFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.DropDMS
Fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 6 days ago.
All 4 plugins tagged “ocr”

WebEquipe PDF Search
Down in the last 7 days:91#12,219by WebEquipe1 month ago
Search inside your PDF documents. Index text-based PDFs in WordPress search. Pro adds OCR, private search, and analytics.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 12/day

WP Tesseract
Up in the last 7 days:89#21,942by tattersoftware6 years ago
A plugin for extracting text from attached images using OCR via Tesseract.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Ming's OCR Scanner
Down in the last 7 days:19,990#70,096by Ming's IT Services Ltd.2 months ago
Scan documents using Tesseract.js or server-side Tesseract OCR, extract text, convert it into structured JSON, save scanned data to WordPress, or send …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
DropDMS
#73,417by dropdms6 days ago
Archive receipts and documents by drag & drop. Text recognition runs in the browser, duplicates are caught before upload, everything is searchable.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 48/day