Open Source ABBYY FineReader PDF Alternatives

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 17 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. 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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  2. 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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  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

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    • Linux
     
  4. 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

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    • Linux
     
  5. 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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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