Photo Scan Alternatives

Photo Scan is described as 'Lets you extract text from Images or Photos very easily and efficiently!' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Photo Scan for a variety of platforms, including iPhone, Android, iPad, Windows and Mac apps. The best Photo Scan alternative is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Photo Scan are MakeACopy, Tesseract, Adobe Acrobat DC and ABBYY FineReader PDF.

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  1. GOCR icon
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    GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg started the program, and now leads a team of developers.

    58 GOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Docus icon
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    The app that allows scanning and organizing documents. Including export in PDF and sharing with others. Completely free.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  3. U Scanner icon
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    U Scanner is a simple all-in-one scanning app that allows you to capture and enhance content on the go, Digitize, save and share meeting slides, whiteboard annotations, receipts, and even napkin scribbles, with a single click.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
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  4. Clean Scan icon
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    Clean Scan is an open source (Apache license) mobile document scanner that lets you easily digitize your paper documents into PDFs.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  5. Readiris icon
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    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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  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. vFlat icon
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    vFlat scans your books quickly and beautifully, flattening the curved pages with the help of deep learning.

    59 vFlat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
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  9. SimpleOCR icon
     3 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. 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
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  11. 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...

    86 CuneiForm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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