ABBYY FineReader PDF AlternativesOnly apps categorised as OCR Engines

The best OCR Engine alternative to ABBYY FineReader PDF is Tesseract, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF and nine of them are OCR Engines so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting OCR Engine alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF are Nanonets, (a9t9) Free OCR Software, OwlOCR and OCRopus.

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

    24 Tesseract alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Tesseract is a great ABBYY FineReader PDF alternative.

    • Tesseract is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to ABBYY FineReader PDF.

    • Tesseract is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ABBYY FineReader PDF.

    • Tesseract is Free and Open SourceABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Nanonets icon
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    Nanonets is an LLM based OCR solution that that automates document processing and data extraction workflows. With models that do not rely on pre-defined document templates, Nanonets helps companies automate document-heavy business processes like accounts payable, order...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Nanonets is the most popular Web-based & SaaS alternative to ABBYY FineReader PDF.

    • Nanonets is Freemium and ProprietaryABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and Proprietary
    • Nanonets is Privacy focusedABBYY FineReader PDF is not according to our users
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    OCR software and web service to extract text from image files and PDF. The application is available as online OCR web app, OCR API, or simple to install Windows store application.

    74 (a9t9) Free OCR Software alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  4. OwlOCR icon
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    OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  5. OCRopus icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. EasyOCR icon
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    Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

    17 EasyOCR alternatives

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  7. GOCR icon
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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 team of developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  8. CuneiForm icon
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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 languages, and the results can be used as HTML, RTF or ASCII text to save, or...

    83 CuneiForm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  9. SimpleOCR icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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