PDFTrail Alternatives

PDFTrail is described as 'Pull the data out of your PDF without sending it anywhere. PDFTrail extracts tables and text on-device — no upload, no account — into Excel, Word, Markdown, or JSON, with structure kept intact' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PDFTrail for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and iPhone apps. The best PDFTrail alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PDFTrail are PDF-XChange Editor, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Tesseract and ABBYY FineReader PDF.

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  1. 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
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  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.

    83 (a9t9) Free OCR Software alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
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  3. OCRFeeder icon
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    OCRFeeder is a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. 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.

    95 FreeOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. ClarifyDocuments is a free AI tool that converts PDFs, images, and slides into clean, editable text. It automatically cleans, organizes, and processes content in any language, helping students and educators focus on learning.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    93 Online OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. OwlOCR icon
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    OwlOCR 7 is a macOS OCR app for text you can see but cannot select. Capture a screen region, open an image or PDF, paste supported content, or import a photo or scan from an iPhone or iPad. Apple Vision performs fast on-device recognition.

    115 OwlOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. 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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  9. Readiris icon
     8 likes

    PDF and OCR publishing software (optical character recognition) for MAC & WINDOWS. Do you dream of an intelligent PDF and OCR solution to intuitively manage your documents? You've found it.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  10. Cloud Vision API provides a comprehensive set of capabilities including object detection, ocr, explicit content, face, logo, and landmark detection.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Cloud Platform
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  11. ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly digitizes fragments of printed text and turns the recognized result into action: call, email, follow links, find on maps, translate into 100+ languages, edit, voice over and share in any convenient way.

    113 ABBYY TextGrabber alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  12. Text-R icon
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    Simple optical text recognition (OCR) for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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