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. Transym OCR (TOCR) is a leading provider of highly sophisticated, accurate and reliable optical character recognition software for developers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. ImageToText app allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by EMAIL or EVERNOTE.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  3. 48h sale! Just take a photo of a text with phone number, e-mail address or URL and immediately call, write e-mail or open URL in Safari. Or just scan and OCR any text.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  4. Text Detective finds and reads text in printed documents within seconds using your iPhone’s camera. The detected text can easily be read, edited, copied and pasted into documents, emails or other apps. It even stores all the scanned text in a history, which allows you to refer...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  5. Advanced OCR (optical character recognition) web application for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents and digital photographs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. OCR Pro+ icon
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    A great way to scan documents and convert the information to text.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  7. Anyline icon
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    Anyline is a mobile text recognition SDK enabling developers to build text recognition apps without having any knowledge about OCR.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Xamarin Studio
    • Unity
    • Appcelerator Titanium
    • Apache Cordova
     
  8. Extract PDF data to JSON format with our automated tool. No manual intervention is required.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Text UP icon
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    This mobile scanner can edit, send or store any text information from photography. You can just make a photo of the bill, instruction, check, buildings with signs, a page of a book or anything else, and use this text information as you like, right away or later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  10. ZeraBooks icon
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    ZeraBooks is an AI-powered bookkeeping platform that converts bank statements, financial statements, invoices, and checks to Excel with 99.6% accuracy.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Text-R icon
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    Simple optical text recognition (OCR) for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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