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 16 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, Adobe Acrobat Reader, OCRmyPDF and CopyFish.

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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.

    30 Tesseract alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  2. NAPS2 icon
     182 likes

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

    49 NAPS2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  3. Seamlessly view, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs with freehand drawing and sticky notes. Utilize cloud storage for effortless access and upgrade for advanced editing and conversion to formats like Word and Excel.

    125 Adobe Acrobat Reader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  4. OCRmyPDF icon
     17 likes

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

    22 OCRmyPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. RapidOCR icon
     2 likes

    📄 Awesome OCR multiple programing languages toolkits based on ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, MNN, PaddlePaddle, TensorRT and PyTorch.

    21 RapidOCR alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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.

    56 Prizmo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Chandra icon
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    Chandra is a highly accurate OCR model that converts images and PDFs into structured HTML/Markdown/JSON while preserving layout information.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  9. 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
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  10. 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
     
  11. Scan all the text on screen and translate them all at once.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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