Adobe Acrobat DC AlternativesOnly apps categorised as OCR Engines

The best OCR Engine alternative to Adobe Acrobat DC is Nanonets, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC and seven of them are OCR Engines so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting OCR Engine alternatives to Adobe Acrobat DC are (a9t9) Free OCR Software, OwlOCR, CuneiForm and SimpleOCR.

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  1. Nanonets icon
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    Nanonets is an LLM based OCR solution that that automates document processing and data extraction workflows. With models that do not rely on pre-defined document templates, Nanonets helps companies automate document-heavy business processes like accounts payable, order...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. OCR software and web service to extract text from image files and PDF. The application is available as online OCR web app, OCR API, or simple to install Windows store application.

    83 (a9t9) Free OCR Software alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Windows
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  3. OwlOCR icon
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    OwlOCR 7 is a macOS OCR app for text you can see but cannot select. Capture a screen region, open an image or PDF, paste supported content, or import a photo or scan from an iPhone or iPad. Apple Vision performs fast on-device recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  4. 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

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. SimpleOCR icon
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    SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for developers to use in their custom applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  6. OCRopus icon
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    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.

    60 OCRopus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. 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
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