Microsoft Document Imaging Alternatives for Mac

Microsoft Office Document Imaging is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is NAPS2, 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 17 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Microsoft Office Document Imaging are Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader PDF, Adobe Acrobat DC and CopyFish.

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  1. NAPS2 icon
     174 likes

    NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.

    49 NAPS2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Tesseract icon
     110 likes

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

    27 Tesseract alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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
     
  4. Adobe Acrobat DC icon
     203 likes

    Manage documents effortlessly, edit PDFs, create them from other formats, and e-sign anywhere. Secure sharing and comparison tools ensure smooth workflows and data protection. New AI Assistant offers quick document insights. Perfect for desktop and web platforms.

    318 Adobe Acrobat DC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
  5. CopyFish icon
     19 likes

    Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.

    85 CopyFish alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  6. OwlOCR icon
     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
     
  7. Readiris icon
     9 likes

    PDF and OCR publishing software (optical character recognition) for MAC & WINDOWS. Do you dream of an intelligent PDF and OCR solution to intuitively manage your documents? You've found it.

    68 Readiris alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. VietOCR icon
     7 likes

    A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Provides optical character recognition for Vietnamese and other languages supported by Tesseract.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. CuneiForm icon
     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
     
  10. Prizmo icon
     9 likes

    Prizmo 3 is a scanning application with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in 25 languages with powerful editing capabilities, text-to-speech, iCloud support, and translation into 59 languages.

    57 Prizmo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  11. PDFify icon
     2 likes

    PDF creation with text recognition and scanner support. Features email and webpage import to PDF. Reduce file size by optimizing PDF.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  12. You can use Easy Screen OCR to capture a snapshot and start OCR process. this program will detect the text from the image and start OCR process immediately. You can extract the text to copy and paste in seconds.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
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