FreeOCR Alternatives

FreeOCR is described as 'Scan & OCR program including the Tesseract free ocr engine, also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows installer, and it is very simple to use' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to FreeOCR for a variety of platforms, including Windows, iPhone, Web-based, Mac and Android apps. The best FreeOCR alternative is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FreeOCR are Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader PDF, Adobe Acrobat DC and GImageReader.

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  1. OCRmyPDF icon
     15 likes

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

    21 OCRmyPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Adobe Scan icon
     14 likes

    The Adobe Scan scanner app turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple file formats including PDF and JPEG.

    122 Adobe Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  3. QuickScan icon
     3 likes

    The app is 100% FREE, with NO ads and NO data collection. Donations are possible to support the project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. Photo Scan icon
     1 like

    Photo Scan lets you extract text from Images or Photos very easily and efficiently!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
     
  5. OCRFeeder icon
     7 likes

    OCRFeeder is a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Scanit icon
     1 like

    Meet Scanit, a simple yet powerful scanner app that lets you quickly scan any kind of documents and convert them into PDF’s.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  7. PDF Doc Scan icon
     3 likes

    Main point of this app is to scan or select existing PDF documents simply using intent or chooser. Other apps require payment to access their api/sdk or simply don't have a possible way to do it. So they rely on switching between an app ,file chooser and a scanner.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  8. Google Stack icon
     1 like

    Get rid of paper clutter with Stack. Stack is a PDF scanner, document organizer, and detail finder. All in one.

    107 Google Stack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  9. OCRMyScreen icon
     1 like

    OCRMyScreen is a small, focused utility that lets you capture text from anywhere on your screen, especially in places where normal copy-paste simply does not work. Instead of retyping error messages, one-time codes, or text inside images and locked UIs, you press a button, drag...

    5 OCRMyScreen alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Online OCR icon
     19 likes

    Free Online OCR is a software that allows you to convert scanned PDF and images into editable Word, Text, Excel output formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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