Free-OCR.com AlternativesOnly apps categorised as OCR Engines

The best OCR Engine alternative to Free-OCR.com is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Free-OCR.com and eight of them are OCR Engines so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting OCR Engine alternatives to Free-OCR.com are ABBYY FineReader PDF, Tesseract, OwlOCR and GOCR.

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Free-OCR.com

Free • Proprietary

Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply.

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Free-OCR.com alternatives page was last updated Dec 7, 2023

OSS Document Scanner
The OSS Document Scanner is an Open Source app to scan all your documents. You either scan using your camera or by importing an image. The app will automatically detect you document within the photo and will crop the image.
56 OSS Document Scanner alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Document Scanner
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- F-Droid
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Top OSS Document Scanner Features
1. Scan documents
2. Export to PDF
3. Works Offline
4. Built-in viewer
5. OCR
6. Mobile Scanner
7. Ad-free
8. No registration required
9. Lightweight
10. Dark Mode
11. Screenshot OCR
12. WebDAV Sync
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OSS Document Scanner VS Free-OCR.com
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- OSS Document Scanner is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to Free-OCR.com.
- OSS Document Scanner is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Free-OCR.com.
- OSS Document Scanner is Free and Open SourceFree-OCR.com is Free and Proprietary
- OSS Document Scanner is LightweightFree-OCR.com is not according to our users

ABBYY FineReader PDF
ABBYY FineReader PDF is an OCR software that provides unmatched text recognition accuracy and conversion capabilities, virtually eliminating retyping and reformatting of documents. Up to 190 languages are supported for text recognition.
84 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
- OCR Engine
- PDF Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- iPhone
- iPad
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Top ABBYY FineReader PDF Features
1. OCR
2. Convert PDF to Word document
3. Side-by-Side Comparison
4. PDF annotation
5. Edit PDF
6. Lightweight
7. Sign PDF files
8. Image to text
9. Convert PDF to image
10. Create PDF files
11. PDF OCR
12. Convert images to PDF
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ABBYY FineReader PDF VS Free-OCR.com
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- ABBYY FineReader PDF is the most popular iPad alternative to Free-OCR.com.
- ABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and ProprietaryFree-OCR.com is Free and Proprietary
- ABBYY FineReader PDF is LightweightFree-OCR.com is not according to our users

Tesseract
Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.
9 Tesseract alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- OCR Engine
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Tesseract Features
OCR
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Tesseract VS Free-OCR.com
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- Tesseract is the most popular Linux alternative to Free-OCR.com.
- Tesseract is Free and Open SourceFree-OCR.com is Free and Proprietary

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ABBYY FineReader PDF
ABBYY FineReader PDF is an OCR software that provides unmatched text recognition accuracy and conversion capabilities, virtually eliminating retyping and reformatting of documents. Up to 190 languages are supported for text recog...

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OwlOCR
OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.
91 OwlOCR alternatives
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application type
- OCR Engine
Platforms
- Mac
OwlOCR Features
OCR
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GOCR
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.
52 GOCR alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- OCR Engine
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
GOCR Features
OCR
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SimpleOCR
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.
81 SimpleOCR alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- OCR Engine
Platforms
- Windows
SimpleOCR Features
OCR
Image Processing
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CuneiForm
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...
79 CuneiForm alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- OCR Engine
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
CuneiForm Features
Portable
OCR
Image Processing
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Discontinued
Last release on 2011: https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/ download
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OCRopus
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.
54 OCRopus alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- OCR Engine
Platforms
- Linux
OCRopus Features
OCR
Image Processing
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Discontinued
Last update was in 16 Dec 2017
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