WatchOCR Alternatives

WatchOCR is described as 'Open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to WatchOCR for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, Web-based and Android apps. The best WatchOCR alternative is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WatchOCR are Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader PDF, Adobe Acrobat DC and GImageReader.

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  4. Adobe Scan icon

    Adobe Scan

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    The Adobe Scan scanner app turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple file formats including PDF and JPEG.

    130 Adobe Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    Adobe Acrobat DC

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  7. QuickScan icon

    QuickScan

     3 likes

    The app is 100% FREE, with NO ads and NO data collection. Donations are possible to support the project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  8. Frog - Extract Text icon

    Frog - Extract Text

     4 likes

    Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • elementary OS
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  10. SikuliX icon

    SikuliX

     7 likes

    SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition.

    68 SikuliX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. FreeOCR icon

    FreeOCR

     29 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. PDF Doc Scan icon

    PDF Doc Scan

     3 likes

    Main point of this app is to scan or select existing PDF documents simply using intent or chooser. Other apps require payment to access their api/sdk or simply don't have a possible way to do it. So they rely on switching between an app ,file chooser and a scanner.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  13. Google Stack icon

    Google Stack

     1 like

    Get rid of paper clutter with Stack. Stack is a PDF scanner, document organizer, and detail finder. All in one.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
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  14. TextShot icon

    TextShot

     1 like

    TextShot is the ultimate tool for extracting text from images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  15. TextGlance icon

    TextGlance

     1 like

    TextGlance makes it effortless to grab text from anywhere on your Mac. See text you can't select in videos, images, or PDFs? Just drag a lasso and get editable text instantly. On-device OCR, no cloud uploads.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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