Online OCR Alternatives

Online OCR is described as 'Free Online OCR is a software that allows you to convert scanned PDF and images into editable Word, Text, Excel output formats' and is an website in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Online OCR, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, iPhone, Android and Mac apps. The best Online OCR alternative is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Online OCR are Tesseract, Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader PDF and GImageReader.

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  1. QuickScan icon
     3 likes

    The app is 100% FREE, with NO ads and NO data collection. Donations are possible to support the project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  2. OCR software and web service to extract text from image files and PDF. The application is available as online OCR web app, OCR API, or simple to install Windows store application.

    75 (a9t9) Free OCR Software alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
     
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  3. SikuliX icon
     7 likes

    SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition.

    67 SikuliX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. FreeOCR icon
     29 likes

    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
     
  5. Scanit icon
     1 like

    Meet Scanit, a simple yet powerful scanner app that lets you quickly scan any kind of documents and convert them into PDF’s.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  6. Photo Scan icon
     1 like

    Photo Scan lets you extract text from Images or Photos very easily and efficiently!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
     
  7. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  8. Google Stack icon
     1 like

    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
     
  9. 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...

    62 Nanonets alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. 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.

    105 OwlOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. 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
     
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