ABBYY FineReader PDF Alternatives for Linux

ABBYY FineReader PDF is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Tesseract, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF are NAPS2, GImageReader, Paperwork and OCRmyPDF.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Tesseract icon
     110 likes

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

    35 Tesseract alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    |
    1
  2. NAPS2 icon
     182 likes

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

    50 NAPS2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    |
    2
  3. OCRmyPDF icon
     18 likes

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

    23 OCRmyPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. CopyFish icon
     19 likes

    Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.

    82 CopyFish alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  5. RapidOCR icon
     2 likes

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

    21 RapidOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. PaperScan icon
     4 likes

    PaperScan Scanner Software is a powerful TWAIN and WIA scanning application with an OCR engine centered on one idea: making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

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

    Adlib PDF delivers enterprise-class, document-to-PDF conversion software. It offers the highest fidelity PDF rendering engine on the market, with accurate OCR capabilities and intelligent document assembly.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
     
  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
     
12 of 20 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives