OCR Tools

A free, open-source viewer for Windows, supports PDFs, eBooks, Comics, with a simple, fast, and portable design prioritized for ease of use.

Free and open-source tool for screen capture and recording; enables file uploads, annotation, dark mode, 4K support, and customizable themes.

Efficient screenshot tool providing OCR, exports to Office apps, supports image editing and sharing, occupying minimal space with 32 languages.

The OSS Document Scanner is a free and Open Source app to transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner.

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

An efficient PDF viewer and editor with advanced features like direct content editing, OCR by ABBYY, form filling, annotation, and offline access.

Locally hosted tool with an interactive GUI for merging, splitting, reorganizing, compressing, converting, watermarking, and securing PDF files.

Read, edit, convert, merge, and sign PDF files across devices, for completely free and without signing up.

View, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs, utilize cloud storage and freehand tools. Upgrade for editing and converting to other formats.

Snipping Tool is a screen capture utility that allows users to take screenshots of specific objects or full screens, annotate them, and save or share the captured images or videos.

MakeACopy is an open-source document scanner app for Android that allows you to digitize paper documents with OCR functionality. The app is designed to be privacy-friendly, working completely offline without any cloud connection or tracking.

Ksnip is a Qt based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.

BentoPDF is a PDF Toolkit that works fully offline with no sign ups. It's fast, secure and forever free. In an era where data is a commodity, we take a different approach. All processing for BentoPDF tools happens locally in your browser.

Capture and edit any image or video from the screen, add callouts and effects, and easily organize and share visual content across various applications.

PDF-XChange Viewer is an alternative viewer for PDF files that enables you to view and annotate PDF files. You can add text, sticky notes, and other annotations and save them to the file, which will be compatible with the standard Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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

Google Lens lets you search what you see, get things done faster, and understand the world around you—using just your camera or a photo.

OCR software with unmatched text recognition accuracy, converting scanned documents into editable formats like Word and Excel, supporting 190 languages.

Open-source cross-platform screen recorder with instant video editing, 4K recording, one-click sharing, privacy controls, no signup, and self-hosting options.

OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.

Open-source tool for macOS with region, window, and fullscreen capture modes, local OCR, fast annotation, customizable backgrounds, and menu bar access.

This package is a personal full text search package which is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface.

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

Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper. Paperless-ngx forked from paperless-ng.

Open-source, privacy-focused tool capturing digital history via snapshots with searchable text and images, advanced local OCR, and cross-platform support.