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. 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
     
  2. 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.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. GOCR icon
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    GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 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
     
  9. 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
     
  10. You can use Easy Screen OCR to capture a snapshot and start OCR process. this program will detect the text from the image and start OCR process immediately. You can extract the text to copy and paste in seconds.

    106 Easy Screen OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  11. Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) is a Microsoft Office application that supports editing documents scanned by Microsoft Office Document Scanning. It was first introduced in Microsoft Office XP and is included in later Office versions including Office 2007.

    51 Microsoft Office Document Imaging alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. NewOCR.com icon
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    NewOCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service, can analyze the text in any image file that you upload, and then convert the text from the image into text that you can easily edit on your computer..

    75 NewOCR.com alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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