ABBYY FineReader PDF Alternatives for Windows

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   Tesseract

    110 likes

   Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.

   30 Tesseract alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • OCR Engine

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   Guest

   Negative comment•Oct 9, 2017

   -4

   quality of OCR is very so-so. FineReader 14 also includes many PDF features

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • Tesseract is Free and Open SourceABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and Proprietary
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   NAPS2

    182 likes

   NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.

   49 NAPS2 alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application types

   • Document Scanner
   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   roshad87a9

   Negative comment•Sep 5, 2018

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   cannot convert to doc file

   Guest

   Positive comment•Aug 22, 2019

   -1

   I tested several options--some free and some paid--and this is the best option for ease of use, install footprint, and features.

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • NAPS2 is Free and Open SourceABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and Proprietary
   • NAPS2 is Privacy focusedABBYY FineReader PDF is not according to our users
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   PDF-XChange Editor

    174 likes

   Feature-rich PDF editor offering direct content editing, ABBYY OCR, viewing, annotation, form filling, PDF merging, compression, and encryption. Operates efficiently offline, requiring no registration and no ads, while providing privacy-focused features and convenient portability.

   157 PDF-XChange Editor alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application types

   • PDF Editor
   • PDF Reader

   Origin

   • Canada

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • PortableApps.com
   • Wine

   

   

   

   +3

   

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   Nicolas

   Positive comment•Mar 21, 2024

   -1

   Best alternative for me to ABBYY FineReader : PDF-XChange Editor Free can edit the text of a PDF. I use it on my iMac (run installation after installing Wine)

   

   

   • PDF-XChange Editor is Freemium and ProprietaryABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and Proprietary
   • PDF-XChange Editor is Customizable and Privacy focusedABBYY FineReader PDF is not according to our users
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   Adobe Acrobat Reader

   Seamlessly view, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs with freehand drawing and sticky notes. Utilize cloud storage for effortless access and upgrade for advanced editing and conversion to formats like Word and Excel.

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   Adobe Acrobat Reader

    446 likes

   Seamlessly view, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs with freehand drawing and sticky notes. Utilize cloud storage for effortless access and upgrade for advanced editing and conversion to formats like Word and Excel.

   125 Adobe Acrobat Reader alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • PDF Reader

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • iPad

   

   

   

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   GImageReader

    74 likes

   gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

   96 GImageReader alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Screenshot Capture

   Origin

   • Switzerland

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

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   Paperwork

    41 likes

   Paperwork is a personal document manager for scanned documents (and PDFs).

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application types

   • Document Manager
   • Document Scanner

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Flathub

   

   

   

   +1

   

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    OCRmyPDF

     17 likes

    OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched - jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF

    22 OCRmyPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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    Kofax Omnipage

     12 likes

    Kofax OmniPage offers industry-leading optical character recognition (OCR) for fast, easy accurate document conversion. Instantly turn paper and digital documents into files you can edit, search and share securely.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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    Guest

    Negative comment•Oct 9, 2017

    -1

    No PDF features (like edditing and commenting)

    Review by a new / low-activity user.

    

    

    • Kofax Omnipage is Paid and ProprietaryABBYY FineReader PDF is also Paid and Proprietary
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    Readiris

     9 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

    Origin

    • Belgium
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    

    

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    Text-R

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    Simple optical text recognition (OCR) for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

    

    

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    CopyFish

     19 likes

    Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.

    82 CopyFish alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application type

    • Document Scanner

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox

    

    

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    RapidOCR

     2 likes

    📄 Awesome OCR multiple programing languages toolkits based on ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, MNN, PaddlePaddle, TensorRT and PyTorch.

    21 RapidOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

    

    

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