PDF OCR Alternatives and Similar Applications

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ABBYY FineReader

Commercial by ABBYY |
Mac, Windows, Online

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A highly intelligent OCR (optical character recognition) software for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents, PDFs and digital photographs. ABBYY FineReader 10 gives you...

ocr, text-recognition
+4 more optical-character-recognition, disk-space-above300m, professional-ocr, text-detection
FreeOCR

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Our admins has flagged this application as 'suspicious'. Be careful if you decide to try it. More info: The installer on the official site contains adwares like Babylon toolbar. You can download a clean setup file, v4.2, from https://www.box.com/s/se8u6moxjytlq2mx8sax
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Tesseract

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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The Tesseract OCR engine was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it had little work done on it, but it is probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines...

ocr, text-recognition
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Online OCR

Free |
Online

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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.

ocr, text-recognition, pdf-to-word
+3 more optical-character-recognition, ocr-online, image-to-text
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i2OCR

Free by Sciweavers |
Online

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i2OCR is a free online OCR that converts scanned documents, faxes, or screenshots into editable text. i2OCR recognizes multi-column documents written in 30+ languages, supports several input image formats,...

ocr, text-recognition, ocr-online
+3 more optical-character-recognition, online-ocr, i2ocr
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Omnipage

Commercial by Nuance |
Windows

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Powerful OCR technology makes OmniPage 17 the world’s best – and most accurate – solution for repurposing, editing, sorting, searching and sharing converted documents in any format you choose. * The...

ocr, professional-ocr, text-detection
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CuneiForm

Open Source by Cognitive Technologies |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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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...

portable, ocr, image-processing, text-recognition
+2 more scanning, recognize
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Prizmo

Commercial by Creaceed |
Mac, iPhone

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Prizmo 2 is a revolutionary scanning application with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in over 40 languages with powerful editing capability, text-to-speech, and iCloud support. Main Features ? Specific...

iphone retina, dropbox, ocr, business-cards, evernote
+10 more optical-character-recognition, paperless, icloud, scan-documents, google-drive, tethering, lens-distortion, perspective-correction, scan-with-camera, page-curvature-correction
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OCR Terminal

Free* by OCR Terminal |
Online

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OCR Terminal is a web-based Optical Character Recognition (OCR) service, allowing you to convert your images into searchable text. Text extraction from documents in 19 languages. Only 20 pages are free per...

ocr, text-recognition, pdf-to-word, online-ocr
+2 more ocr-online, tif-to-txt
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OCRopus

Open Source |
Linux

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OCRopus(tm) is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multilingual capabilities. ...

ocr, image-processing, text-recognition
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Free-OCR.com

Free |
Online

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Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply. This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not...

ocr, text-recognition, online-ocr, extract-text
+1 more image-to-text
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NewOCR.com

Free by NewOCR |
Online

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NewOCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service. NewOCR.com can analyze the text in any image file that you upload, and then convert the text from the image into text that you can...

ocr, text-recognition, extract-text, ocr-online
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VietOCR

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Description: A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Supports optical character recognition for Vietnamese language. VietOCR is released and distributed under the Apache License, v2.0....

java, ocr, net
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Document Express

Commercial by Caminova, Inc. |
Windows

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Whether you need to share documents across the hall or around the world, Document Express with DjVu enables efficient distribution of any kind of document while delivering an unprecedented reduction in...

pdf, ocr, content-management, scanning
+4 more share-documents, djvu, archiving, high-compression
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OmniPage Cloud Service

Commercial by Nuance Communications, Inc. |
Online

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The OmniPage Cloud Service is a cloud computing platform built on the OmniPage Capture SDK. It exposes web services that allow for large scale OCR processing of input files of almost any image formats into a...

pdf, ocr, cloud-computing, pdf-to-word
+3 more optical-character-recognition, online-ocr, ocr-sdk
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GOCR

Open Source |
Windows, Linux

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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...

ocr, character-recognition
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ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK

Free* by ABBYY |
Online

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Highly-accurate ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK is available for everyone in a cloud through web API. OCR, ICR, barcode recognition, business card recognition, handprinted text recognition and many more!

programming, software-development, ocr-sdk
+4 more best-ocr-sdk, abbyy-sdk, abbyy, cloud-sdk
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YAGF

Open Source by Andrew Borovsky |
Linux

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YAGF, Yet Another Graphical Front-end for CuneiForm, is a graphical interface for CuneiForm and Tesseract text recognition tools on the Linux platform. With YAGF you can scan images via XSane, import pages...

ocr, image-processing, text-recognition, scanning
+1 more extract-images-from-pdf
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TextGrabber

Commercial by ABBYY USA Software House Inc |
iPhone

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TextGrabber + Translator turns your iPhone into a multifunctional mobile scanner with translation capability. Just take a picture of the text, and you can immediately edit it or translate, share via e-mail...

Office & Productivity ocr, text-recognition
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SimpleOCR

Free by Simple Software |
Windows

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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. If you have a...

ocr, image-processing, text-recognition, scanning

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