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. WatchOCR icon
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    WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. img2txt.com icon
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    img2txt.com is an online OCR service that allows you to get text from a picture or scanned page.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. CuneiForm icon
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    CuneiForm (OpenOCR) is a text recognition software for printed templates. Manuscripts or PDF-files, the program can not recognize, however, but table structures. The language-model is applicable for 20 languages, and the results can be used as HTML, RTF or ASCII text to save, or...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. SimpleOCR icon
     3 likes

    SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for developers to use in their custom applications.

    86 SimpleOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. ImageToText app allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by EMAIL or EVERNOTE.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  6. Business Card Scanner app for organizing and digitizing paper card data. Also, its online source offers full-fledged image to text converter to grab text from images.

    40 Card Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Free-OCR.com icon
     5 likes

    Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Screen OCR icon
     3 likes

    Screen OCR is a screen capture and character recognition tool. You can use Screen OCR in any way you are most comfortable with. It can be window selection, scrolling capture, simple cursor capture or rectangular selection.

    45 Screen OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Sometimes we need to get the text out of photos or scanned documents for further editing and use. Free Easy OCR is a totally free Scan and OCR program and uses the revolutionary OCR technology which provides high recognition accuracy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. DevTools360 icon
     1 like

    The swiss knife for your daily use, this website was developed to deliver one source for the most used tools and data conversions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. ZoomReader icon
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    In combination with your iOS device's built-in camera, ZoomReader lets you magnify and read printed text by first taking a picture of an object like a book or menu, then converts the image into text using state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
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