Open Source ABBYY FineReader PDF AlternativesTop OCR Engines and other similar apps like ABBYY FineReader PDF

The best open source alternative to ABBYY FineReader PDF is Tesseract. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF are NAPS2, GImageReader, Paperwork and OCRmyPDF.

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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.

    30 Tesseract alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  3. Paperwork icon
     41 likes

    Paperwork is a personal document manager for scanned documents (and PDFs).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. OCRFeeder icon
     8 likes

    OCRFeeder is a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. RapidOCR icon
     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Chandra icon
     2 likes

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

    23 Chandra alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  8. GpScanner icon
     1 like

    This document scanner application is developed for windows only. Compatible with both WIA and TWAIN. Users can Rotate, crop, rearrange scanned images and identify texts using OCR module

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. OCRopus icon
     5 likes

    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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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