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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

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  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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  JOCR

  Free by EverRex Software (Woo Sik Jung) |

  Windows

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  Apparently JOCR requires Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 and won't work with Office 2010 (unless you also have an older version and do some tweaking). [1] JOCR enables you to capture the image on the...

    portable JOCR requires Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007, multi-language, ocr, screenshots

  +4 more text-recognition, screencapture, printscreen, screenshot-ocr

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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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  ABBYY Screenshot Reader

  Commercial by ABBYY |

  Windows

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  Screenshot Reader is a smart OCR-screenshot application for capturing text and images from any area on your PC screen and extracting text from them or just saving as an image. Prize: 9.99 USD. ABBYY...

    multi-language, ocr, screenshots, text-recognition

  +3 more screencapture, printscreen, screenshot-ocr

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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

  Not an alternative?

  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

  Not an alternative?

  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

  Not an alternative?

  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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  Screen OCR

  Commercial |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  Screen OCR is a screen capture and character recognition tool. You can use Screen OCR in any way you are most comfortable with. It can be window selection, scrolling capture, simple cursor capture or...

    Photos & Graphics   screenshot-utility, ocr, extract-text, text-capture

  +4 more screenshot-ocr, character-recognition, screen-scraping, text-grabbing

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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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• vericule

  Mar 2013 Added GOCR as an alternative to WatchOCR

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• titusjaka

  Jan 2013 Added YAGF (Yet Another Graphical Front-end for CuneiForm) as an alternative to WatchOCR

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• Thelle

  Dec 2012 Added ZoomReader as an alternative to WatchOCR

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• Thelle

  Dec 2012 Added TextDetective as an alternative to WatchOCR

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• Thelle

  Dec 2012 Added Smart Scanner as an alternative to WatchOCR

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• Thelle

  Dec 2012 Added Image To Text as an alternative to WatchOCR

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• Thelle

  Dec 2012 Added TextGrabber as an alternative to WatchOCR

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• dgm5555

  Sep 2012 Added kleptomania as an alternative to WatchOCR

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• piotrex

  Jul 2012 Added Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) as an alternative to WatchOCR

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• ghingyi

  May 2012 Added OmniPage Cloud Service as an alternative to WatchOCR

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• mortgat

  Apr 2012 Removed Ground Truth Text as an alternative to WatchOCR

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• mortgat

  Apr 2012 Added Ground Truth Text as an alternative to WatchOCR

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