OCR.Space Free OCR API Alternatives

OCR.Space Free OCR API is described as 'Best free OCR API, Online OCR and Searchable PDF (Sandwich PDF) Service. Try instantly, no registration required. The Cloud OCR API is a REST-based Web API to extract text from images and convert scans to searchable PDF. Free OCR software as a hosted service and as download' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to OCR.Space Free OCR API for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, iPhone, Mac and Android apps. The best OCR.Space Free OCR API alternative is Tesseract, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like OCR.Space Free OCR API are Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader PDF, GImageReader and CamScanner.

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  1. FreeOCR icon
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    FreeOCR is a scan & OCR program including the Tesseract free ocr engine, also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows installer, and it is very simple to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Photo Scan icon
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    Photo Scan lets you extract text from Images or Photos very easily and efficiently!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
     
  3. PDF Doc Scan icon
     3 likes

    Main point of this app is to scan or select existing PDF documents simply using intent or chooser. Other apps require payment to access their api/sdk or simply don't have a possible way to do it. So they rely on switching between an app ,file chooser and a scanner.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  5. Online OCR icon
     19 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Nanonets icon
     1 like

    Nanonets is an LLM based OCR solution that that automates document processing and data extraction workflows. With models that do not rely on pre-defined document templates, Nanonets helps companies automate document-heavy business processes like accounts payable, order...

    61 Nanonets alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. OwlOCR icon
     5 likes

    OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. OCR Reader is an image to text converter program that allows you to extract text from PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WEBP, and BMP image files using Optical Character Recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. 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!

    115 Pocket Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  11. 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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