GOCR is described as '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' and is a OCR Engine in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to GOCR for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Mac, iPhone and Linux apps. The best GOCR alternative is Tesseract, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GOCR are Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader PDF, OCRmyPDF and CopyFish.