Microsoft Document Imaging AlternativesOnly apps categorised as OCR Engines

The best OCR Engine alternative to Microsoft Office Document Imaging is Tesseract, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Microsoft Office Document Imaging and eight of them are OCR Engines so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting OCR Engine alternatives to Microsoft Office Document Imaging are ABBYY FineReader PDF, dpScreenOCR, (a9t9) Free OCR Software and OwlOCR.

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  1. Tesseract icon

    Tesseract

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

    27 Tesseract alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. ABBYY FineReader PDF icon

    ABBYY FineReader PDF

     142 likes

    Optical recognition software boasting unmatched text accuracy converts scanned documents to editable Word, Excel, or searchable PDFs while preserving layout. Supports 190 languages, simplifies processes with automated tasks, and includes PDF editing tools.

    91 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  6. (a9t9) Free OCR Software icon

    (a9t9) Free OCR Software

     22 likes

    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.

    76 (a9t9) Free OCR Software alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
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  7. OwlOCR icon

    OwlOCR

     5 likes

    OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.

    106 OwlOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. SimpleOCR icon

    SimpleOCR

     3 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. CuneiForm icon

    CuneiForm

     10 likes

    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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    OCR Main Window
     
  11. OCRopus icon

    OCRopus

     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
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