Open Source ABBYY FineReader PDF Alternatives

The best open source alternative to ABBYY FineReader PDF is NAPS2. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF and 19 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF are Tesseract, GImageReader, Paperwork and OCRmyPDF.

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  1. VietOCR icon
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    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
    • Windows
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  2. MinerU icon
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    Free all-in-one document parsing tool. Accurate parsing, efficient extraction, providing a more fluent and accurate parsing experience.

    18 MinerU alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. YAGF icon
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    YAGF, Yet Another Graphical Front-end for CuneiForm, is a graphical interface for CuneiForm and Tesseract text recognition tools on the Linux platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. 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
    • Linux
     
  5. WatchOCR icon
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    WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. OCRtoODT icon
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    OCRtoODT is a Qt6 desktop application built around a deterministic, inspectable OCR pipeline:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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