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, Mac, Linux 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, Adobe Acrobat Reader and GImageReader.

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  1. Boxoft Screen OCR is fast and easy-to-use software which helps to extract any area on your screen, recognize every character and then save as TXT file. Price: 27 USD. The smart tool enables you to select text from anywhere on the screen, including areas that you cannot highlight...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. OCR Convert icon
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    OCR Convert is an online OCR service that allows users to convert scanned images and PDF files to editable text formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Anyline icon
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    Anyline is a mobile text recognition SDK enabling developers to build text recognition apps without having any knowledge about OCR.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Xamarin Studio
    • Unity
    • Appcelerator Titanium
    • Apache Cordova
     
  4. OCR Reader is an image to text converter program that allows you to extract text from PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WEBP, and BMP image files using Optical Character Recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. VietOCR icon
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    A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Provides optical character recognition for Vietnamese and other languages supported by Tesseract.

    72 VietOCR alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. CloudScan icon
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    CloudScan. Free Scanning Software. (Scan to PDF and TIFF Everywhere Easily)

    CloudScan is a completely free scan application. It provides a new, simple way to scan your documents, pictures or photos and save them to mulitpage PDF files. Cloud can be successfully used on one compu.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  7. PDF to Text is used to quickly convert PDF documents to plain text files in batch mode. It works without Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, and has Command Line Interface (CLI), fast and accurate conversion ability, friendly GUI, small size.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. MinerU icon
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    Free all-in-one document parsing tool. Accurate parsing, efficient extraction, providing a more fluent and accurate parsing experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  9. Pen2txt icon
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    Transform handwriting into digital text effortlessly with Pen2Txt's AI, supporting multiple languages and imperfect script, complete with error correction and translation, streamlining document digitization.

    11 Pen2txt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Free OCR to Word is text recognition software that performs all your tedious retyping and recreating work at lightning speed into Word documents you can edit on your PC or archive in a document repository.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Advanced OCR (optical character recognition) web application for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents and digital photographs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. YAGF icon
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    YAGF, Yet Another Graphical Front-end for CuneiForm, is a graphical interface for CuneiForm and Tesseract text recognition tools on the Linux platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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