PDF OCR Alternatives

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

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  1. SimpleOCR icon
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    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

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    Platforms

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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. CuneiForm icon
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    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
     
  4. Prizmo icon
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    Prizmo 3 is a scanning application with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in 25 languages with powerful editing capabilities, text-to-speech, iCloud support, and translation into 59 languages.

    57 Prizmo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  5. Kofax Omnipage icon
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    Kofax OmniPage offers industry-leading optical character recognition (OCR) for fast, easy accurate document conversion. Instantly turn paper and digital documents into files you can edit, search and share securely.

    65 Kofax Omnipage alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. i2OCR icon
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    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
     
  7. DocHorizon is an AI-powered document processing platform that automates data extraction, fraud detection, identity verification, anonymization, and e-invoicing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. PDFify icon
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    PDF creation with text recognition and scanner support. Features email and webpage import to PDF. Reduce file size by optimizing PDF.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  9. OCRopus icon
     5 likes

    OCRopus(tm) is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multilingual capabilities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. NewOCR.com icon
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    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..

    75 NewOCR.com alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. An intelligent OCR image text recognition software. Support PDF file recognition, image text recognition, screenshot recognition, ticket recognition, image to Excel and other functions, one-click analysis, efficient recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. Free-OCR.com icon
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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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