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, Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader PDF and GImageReader.

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  1. Extract PDF data to JSON format with our automated tool. No manual intervention is required.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  2. SearchOCR icon
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    Searching for a specific image in a folder of thousands can be a daunting task, and traditional search engines are often limited to searching only by filename. That's where SearchOCR comes in. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology allows our software to search for...

    52 SearchOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. 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
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  4. Grab2Text icon
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    Copy text from images or any digital documents (including handwritten text).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. Scan all the text on screen and translate them all at once.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. iScanner icon
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    A multifunctional AI platform for document scanning and management.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  7. ZenOCR icon
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    ZenOCR is a menu bar OCR app for macOS. Trigger it with a global shortcut to capture any part of the screen, or drag an image or PDF onto it, and it extracts the text instantly. It can convert PDFs to Markdown while preserving tables and math (LaTeX), which makes it handy for...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. LensOCR icon
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    Extract easy and fast any text on your Mac's screen.

    64 LensOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. 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
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  10. 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
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  11. LudyLens icon
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    LudyLens is the fastest screen OCR app for Mac. Capture text from videos, images, PDFs, or any app. Pin it. Edit it. 100% on-device.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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