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.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
PDF OCR alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. WatchOCR icon
     3 likes

    WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. YAGF icon
     2 likes

    YAGF, Yet Another Graphical Front-end for CuneiForm, is a graphical interface for CuneiForm and Tesseract text recognition tools on the Linux platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. You can use Easy Screen OCR to capture a snapshot and start OCR process. this program will detect the text from the image and start OCR process immediately. You can extract the text to copy and paste in seconds.

    106 Easy Screen OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  4. ZoomReader icon
     1 like

    In combination with your iOS device's built-in camera, ZoomReader lets you magnify and read printed text by first taking a picture of an object like a book or menu, then converts the image into text using state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  5. PlumText icon
     1 like

    PlumText converts images and scanned PDF documents into a searchable text database.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. DevTools360 icon
     1 like

    The swiss knife for your daily use, this website was developed to deliver one source for the most used tools and data conversions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Highly-accurate ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK is available for everyone in a cloud through web API. OCR, ICR, barcode recognition, business card recognition, handprinted text recognition and many more!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Business Card Scanner app for organizing and digitizing paper card data. Also, its online source offers full-fledged image to text converter to grab text from images.

    40 Card Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. OCR Convert icon
     1 like

    OCR Convert is an online OCR service that allows users to convert scanned images and PDF files to editable text formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. 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.

    72 OCR.Space Free OCR API alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Invoice OCR icon
     1 like

    Our tool simplifies your data management process by extracting data from invoices and converting them into CSV files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. doXiview icon
     1 like

    doXiview is a free online ocr web site. Besides pure ocr, it is also possible to do image manipulation and pdf convertion.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
You are at page 4 of PDF OCR alternatives