Open Source Image To Text Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Image To Text is GImageReader. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Image To Text and 13 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Image To Text are Tesseract, OpenScan, CopyFish and CuneiForm.

Image To Text alternatives are mainly Document Scanners but may also be PDF Editors or Note-taking Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Image To Text.

Image To Text

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ImageToText app allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by EMAIL or EVERNOTE.

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GImageReader
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Free • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool
Windows
Linux
72 GImageReader alternatives
gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.
- - GImageReader is the most popular Linux alternative to Image To Text.
- - GImageReader is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Image To Text.
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GImageReader Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
Image to text
PDF OCR
Tesseract
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
71 Tesseract alternatives
Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.
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Tesseract Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
OpenScan
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Android
102 OpenScan alternatives
OpenScan is an open source app that enables users to scan hardcopies of documents or notes and convert it to PDF or JPEG files. Its motto is "No ads. No data collection. We respect your privacy.".
- - OpenScan is the most popular Android alternative to Image To Text.
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OpenScan Features
1. Privacy focusedOpenScan is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
2. Ad-freeOpenScan doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. Sign PDF filesOpenScan support signing a PDF document digitally on a touch screen etc.
4. Built-in viewerOpenScan shows you a quick preview of an image, page or file in supported formats.
5. Works OfflineOpenScan can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
6. Fill PDF FormsOpenScan supports forms in PDF files.
7. Mobile ScannerOpenScan can use your mobile camera to quickly scan documents and photos.
8. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in OpenScan without registration.
Photo scan
Scanner
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CopyFish
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Mac
Windows
Linux
Microsoft Edge
Google Chrome
Firefox
71 CopyFish alternatives
Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.
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CopyFish Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in CopyFish without registration.
PDF OCR
Screenshot OCR
Scanner
Scan to word
Text Translation
Scan to PDF
Process scanning
Image to text
CuneiForm
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
78 CuneiForm alternatives
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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CuneiForm Features
1. PortableCuneiForm can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Image Processing
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Last release on 2011: https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/ download
GOCR
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
50 GOCR alternatives
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.
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GOCR Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
VietOCR
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Linux
67 VietOCR alternatives
Supports optical character recognition for Vietnamese language. Released and distributed under the Apache License, v2.0.
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VietOCR Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
OCRopus
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Free • Open Source
Linux
53 OCRopus alternatives
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.
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OCRopus Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Image Processing
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SikuliX
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
63 SikuliX alternatives
SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition powered by OpenCV to identify GUI components. This is handy in cases when there is no easy access to a GUI's internals or the source...
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SikuliX Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
WatchOCR
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Free • Open Source
Linux
77 WatchOCR alternatives
WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.
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WatchOCR Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Convert images to PDF
PDF OCR
Image to text
YAGF
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Free • Open Source
Linux
60 YAGF alternatives
YAGF, Yet Another Graphical Front-end for CuneiForm, is a graphical interface for CuneiForm and Tesseract text recognition tools on the Linux platform.
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YAGF Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Image Processing
qhocr
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Free • Open Source
Windows
8 qhocr alternatives
qhocr is a free Hebrew OCR (optical character recognition) application based on the hocr c/c++ library by Kobi Zamir. The aim of this project is to develop a fully open-source and free OCR (or hebrew definition) application, aimed for an end-user.
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qhocr Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
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Last commit in 2013: https://code.google.com/archive/p/qhocr/source/default/commits