MinerU Alternatives

MinerU is described as 'Free all-in-one document parsing tool. Accurate parsing, efficient extraction, providing a more fluent and accurate parsing experience' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to MinerU for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone and Web-based apps. The best MinerU alternative is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MinerU are Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader PDF, Open Scanner and Scan Thing: Scan Anything.

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MinerU alternatives page was last updated May 6, 2025
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  1. OSS Document Scanner icon

    OSS Document Scanner

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    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.

    63 OSS Document Scanner alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • F-Droid
    OSS Document Scanner screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Scan documents
    2.  Export to PDF
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Mobile Scanner
    5.  No registration required
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  Built-in viewer
    8.  OCR
    9.  Dark Mode
    10.  Screenshot OCR
    11.  WebDAV Sync
    12.  Image to text

    OSS Document Scanner VS MinerU

     

    • OSS Document Scanner is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to MinerU.

    • OSS Document Scanner is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to MinerU.

    • OSS Document Scanner is Free and Open SourceMinerU is also Free and Open Source
    • OSS Document Scanner is Lightweight and Privacy focusedMinerU is not according to our users
  2. Tesseract icon

    Tesseract

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

    19 Tesseract alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Tesseract screenshot 1

    Tesseract Features

    1.  OCR

    Tesseract VS MinerU

     

    • Tesseract is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to MinerU.

    • Tesseract is Free and Open SourceMinerU is also Free and Open Source
  4. ABBYY FineReader PDF icon

    ABBYY FineReader PDF

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    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.

    85 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives

    License model

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    ABBYY FineReader PDF screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Convert PDF to Word document
    3.  Side-by-Side Comparison
    4.  PDF annotation
    5.  Sign PDF files
    6.  Edit PDF
    7.  Image to text
    8.  Convert PDF to image
    9.  Create PDF files
    10.  PDF OCR
    11.  Convert images to PDF
    12.  Split and merge PDF files

    ABBYY FineReader PDF VS MinerU

     

    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is the most popular iPad alternative to MinerU.

    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is the most popular commercial alternative to MinerU.

    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and ProprietaryMinerU is Free and Open Source
    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is LightweightMinerU is not according to our users
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    ABBYY FineReader PDF

    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 ...

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  6. Open Scanner icon

    Open Scanner

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    Open Scanner is a fast and simple-to-use paper-scanning app with AI features to speed up your scanning workflow:

    56 Open Scanner alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
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    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  No Tracking
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  PDF annotation
    5.  OCR
    6.  Sign PDF files
    7.  Mobile Scanner
    8.  Sync with iCloud
    9.  AI-Powered
    10.  Scanner
    11.  Video annotation
    12.  Scan to PDF

    Open Scanner VS MinerU

     
  7. Scan Thing: Scan Anything icon

    Scan Thing: Scan Anything

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    Scan Thing is the quickest way to capture and save anything around you. Scan Thing is available on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Mac
    Scan Thing: Scan Anything screenshot 1
    Scan Thing: Scan Anything screenshot 2
    Scan Thing: Scan Anything screenshot 3

    Scan Thing: Scan Anything Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Mobile Scanner
    5.  Scanner

    Scan Thing: Scan Anything VS MinerU

     
  8. gscan2pdf icon

    gscan2pdf

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    gscan2pdf can scan, clean the scan and do OCR on the scan or imported images (incl. existing PDFs, DjVus or other file types), and make PDF and DjVu-files with embedded OCR-text. It works together with tesseract, ocropus, cuneiform an...

    28 gscan2pdf alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Main Window

    gscan2pdf Features

    1.  PDF OCR
    2.  Scan to PDF
    3.  Export to PDF
    4.  OCR
    5.  Screenshot OCR
    6.  Split and merge PDF files

    gscan2pdf VS MinerU

     
  10. OwlOCR icon

    OwlOCR

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

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    OwlOCR screenshot 1

    OwlOCR Features

    1.  OCR

    OwlOCR VS MinerU

     
  11. GOCR icon

    GOCR

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Main window

    GOCR Features

    1.  OCR

    GOCR VS MinerU

     
  12. SimpleOCR icon

    SimpleOCR

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • IT flagItaly
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    SimpleOCR screenshot 1

    SimpleOCR Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Image Processing

    SimpleOCR VS MinerU

     
  13. CuneiForm icon

    CuneiForm

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    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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    OCR Main Window
    Discontinued

    Last release on 2011: https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/ download

    CuneiForm Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  OCR
    3.  Image Processing

    CuneiForm VS MinerU

     
  14. Klippa DocHorizon icon

    Klippa DocHorizon

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    DocHorizon is an AI-powered document processing platform that automates data extraction, fraud detection, identity verification, anonymization, and e-invoicing.

    License model

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • NL flagNetherlands
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Klippa DocHorizon screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Import CSV Data
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  OCR
    4.  No Coding Required
    5.  Calendar Integration
    6.  No Tracking
    7.  Employee onboarding
    8.  PDF OCR
    9.  Automatic data extraction
    10.  AI-Powered
    11.  Business Automation

    Klippa DocHorizon VS MinerU

     

    • Klippa DocHorizon is the most popular Web-based & SaaS alternative to MinerU.

    • Klippa DocHorizon is Paid and ProprietaryMinerU is Free and Open Source
    • Klippa DocHorizon is Privacy focusedMinerU is not according to our users
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    OCRopus

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Main Interface
    Discontinued

    Last update was in 16 Dec 2017

    OCRopus Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Image Processing

    OCRopus VS MinerU

     
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