ABBYY FineReader PDF Alternatives

ABBYY FineReader PDF is described as 'OCR software with unmatched text recognition accuracy, converting scanned documents into editable formats like Word and Excel, supporting 190 languages' and is a very popular OCR Engine in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Linux, Mac and iPhone apps. The best ABBYY FineReader PDF alternative is Tesseract, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ABBYY FineReader PDF are NAPS2, PDF-XChange Editor, GImageReader and Paperwork.

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ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives are mainly Document Scanners, but if you're looking for OCR Engines or PDF Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux and Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF.
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  1. PaperScan icon
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    PaperScan Scanner Software is a powerful TWAIN and WIA scanning application with an OCR engine centered on one idea: making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.

    29 PaperScan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Ocrkit icon
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    OCRKit uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to recognize the text in the graphic, which is particular useful for PDFs received via e-mail, created by DTP, office applications, with a scanner or copier.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. OwlOCR icon
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    OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.

    105 OwlOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Adlib PDF delivers enterprise-class, document-to-PDF conversion software. It offers the highest fidelity PDF rendering engine on the market, with accurate OCR capabilities and intelligent document assembly.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
     
  5. FreeOCR icon
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    FreeOCR is a scan & OCR program including the Tesseract free ocr engine, also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows installer, and it is very simple to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Free OCR lacks the options such as recognizing Tables, and having the possibility to command the OCR to look for specific formats.

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    • Most users think FreeOCR is a great ABBYY FineReader PDF alternative.

    • FreeOCR is Free and ProprietaryABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and Proprietary
  6. PDF OCR icon
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    PDF OCR is a software that converts scanned PDF documents into editable text files in just two clicks. Its OCR engine operates 92% faster than other software, giving users the option to select specific pages for OCR.

    63 PDF OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. OCRvision icon
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    OCRvision is an optical character recognition software which monitors a pre-configured folder and OCR any newly scanned files to searchable PDFs.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Invoice OCR icon
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    Our tool simplifies your data management process by extracting data from invoices and converting them into CSV files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. SearchOCR icon
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    Searching for a specific image in a folder of thousands can be a daunting task, and traditional search engines are often limited to searching only by filename. That's where SearchOCR comes in. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology allows our software to search for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Scan all the text on screen and translate them all at once.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. GpScanner icon
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    This document scanner application is developed for windows only. Compatible with both WIA and TWAIN. Users can Rotate, crop, rearrange scanned images and identify texts using OCR module

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. OCRopus icon
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    OCRopus(tm) is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multilingual capabilities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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