Free ABBYY FineReader PDF Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Mac alternative is Tesseract, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF and 14 are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF are NAPS2, OCRmyPDF, CopyFish and Prizmo.

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  1. Tesseract icon
     110 likes

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

    29 Tesseract alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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    Tesseract vs ABBYY FineReader PDF Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    -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
  2. NAPS2 icon
     181 likes

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

    50 NAPS2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    NAPS2 vs ABBYY FineReader PDF Comments
    roshad87a9
    Negative
    0

    cannot convert to doc file

    Guest
    Positive
    -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
  3. OCRmyPDF icon
     15 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Prizmo icon
     9 likes

    Prizmo 3 is a scanning application with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in 25 languages with powerful editing capabilities, text-to-speech, iCloud support, and translation into 59 languages.

    55 Prizmo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  5. PDFify icon
     2 likes

    PDF creation with text recognition and scanner support. Features email and webpage import to PDF. Reduce file size by optimizing PDF.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  6. OwlOCR icon
     5 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  7. SearchOCR icon
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    Searching for a specific image in a folder of thousands can be a daunting task, and traditional search engines are often limited to searching only by filename. That's where SearchOCR comes in. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology allows our software to search for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Scan all the text on screen and translate them all at once.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. LensOCR icon
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    Extract easy and fast any text on your Mac's screen.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Chandra icon
     1 like

    Chandra is a highly accurate OCR model that converts images and PDFs into structured HTML/Markdown/JSON while preserving layout information.

    23 Chandra alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  11. VietOCR icon
     7 likes

    A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Provides optical character recognition for Vietnamese and other languages supported by Tesseract.

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    • Mac
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