Adobe Scan Alternatives

Adobe Scan is described as 'The Adobe Scan scanner app turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple file formats including PDF and JPEG' and is a document scanner in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Scan for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Web-based, iPad and Windows apps. The best Adobe Scan alternative is FairScan, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Adobe Scan are OSS Document Scanner, MakeACopy, Tesseract and CamScanner.

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  1. Frog - Extract Text icon

    Frog - Extract Text

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    Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • elementary OS
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    • European Union flagEU
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  2. Text Fairy icon

    Text Fairy

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    Convert your phone into a mobile text scanner.

    • Free • Extract text from images. • Edit, share, or export as PDF • Works offline to protect your privacy. • Reads text out loud. (Text-to-speech, TTS) • Recognizes printed text from more than 110 languages. • Scan documents with t.

    47 Text Fairy alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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    • European Union flagEU
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  4. ABBYY TextGrabber icon

    ABBYY TextGrabber

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    ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly digitizes fragments of printed text and turns the recognized result into action: call, email, follow links, find on maps, translate into 100+ languages, edit, voice over and share in any convenient way.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    PDF OCR

    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.

    http://www.pdfocr.net
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  6. OwlOCR icon

    OwlOCR

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    OwlOCR 7 is a macOS OCR app for text you can see but cannot select. Capture a screen region, open an image or PDF, paste supported content, or import a photo or scan from an iPhone or iPad. Apple Vision performs fast on-device recognition.

    115 OwlOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    OwlOCR workspace for recognizing and editing text from images and PDFs
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  7. pixFront icon

    pixFront

     1 like

    Corrects a particular object in an image to "look like it is seen from the front".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Clean Scan icon

    Clean Scan

     1 like

    Clean Scan is an open source (Apache license) mobile document scanner that lets you easily digitize your paper documents into PDFs.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  10. TextShot icon

    TextShot

     1 like

    TextShot is the ultimate tool for extracting text from images.

    64 TextShot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    • European Union flagEU
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  11. Text-R icon

    Text-R

     1 like

    Simple optical text recognition (OCR) for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • European Union flagEU
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  12. Free-OCR.com icon

    Free-OCR.com

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    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
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  13. PicDF icon

    PicDF

     1 like

    An all in one PDF tools app. Create PDF, Capture PDF, Compress PDF, Merge PDFs, Split PDF, Delete Pages, Rotate Pages, and much more all in one single app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
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  14. Free OCR to Word icon

    Free OCR to Word

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    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
    • IN flagIndia
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  15. WatchOCR icon

    WatchOCR

     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Web Interface Server Control
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