OCR Online Alternatives

OCR Online is described as 'Advanced OCR (optical character recognition) web application for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents and digital photographs' and is an website in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to OCR Online, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux and iPhone apps. The best OCR Online alternative is Adobe Acrobat DC. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try GImageReader or CamScanner. Other great sites and apps similar to OCR Online are ABBYY FineReader PDF, OpenScan, Notebloc and Adobe Scan.

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  1. Google Stack icon
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    Get rid of paper clutter with Stack. Stack is a PDF scanner, document organizer, and detail finder. All in one.

    114 Google Stack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
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  2. Online OCR icon
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    Free Online OCR is a software that allows you to convert scanned PDF and images into editable Word, Text, Excel output formats.

    93 Online OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  3. OwlOCR icon
     4 likes

    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

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    • Mac
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  4. GOCR icon
     7 likes

    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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Pocket Scanner icon
     120 likes

    Pocket Scanner Ultimate is the stand-alone version of Kdan’s Pocket Scanner series. Search “Pocket Scanner Cloud” in the App Store and try out the app & cloud services for free!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  6. Provides accurate and fast text detection from any image file downloaded from your device or taken with a snapshot. It also supports textual detection of a PDF and text-based handwriting detection and text translation in 114 different languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. 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
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  8. VietOCR icon
     7 likes

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

    73 VietOCR alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. CuneiForm icon
     10 likes

    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
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  10. i2OCR icon
     7 likes

    i2OCR is a free online OCR that converts scanned documents, faxes, or screenshots into editable text. i2OCR recognizes multi-column documents written in 30+ languages, supports several input image formats, which can be loaded from disk or URL, displays recognized text as well as...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. OCRvision icon
     1 like

    OCRvision is an optical character recognition software which monitors a pre-configured folder and OCR any newly scanned files to searchable PDFs.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. NewOCR.com icon
     4 likes

    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..

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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