MyFreeOCR Alternatives

MyFreeOCR is described as 'Optical character recognition is the process of recognising characters from an image. This is especially useful if you want to edit a scanned document' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to MyFreeOCR for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Android apps. The best MyFreeOCR alternative is Okular, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MyFreeOCR are MuPDF, Qoppa PDF Studio, Notebloc and CopyFish.

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  1. Okular icon
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    Multi-platform document viewer supporting PDF, ePub, comics, images, and Markdown with annotation, digital signature verification, tabbed interface, sidebar navigation, text selection, text-to-speech, magnifier, search, dark mode, and plugin support.

    125 Okular alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
     
  2. MuPDF icon
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    MuPDF offers a highly versatile PDF, XPS, and eBook interpreter, customizable as a renderer, viewer, or toolkit. Features include digital signatures, redactions, form filling, annotations, and page manipulation, ideal for mobile, eBooks, and embedded apps supporting Java, C++, and Python.

    99 MuPDF alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Xfce
     
  3. Create, Convert, Review and Edit PDF Documents on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
     
  4. FreeOCR icon
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    FreeOCR is a 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.

    88 FreeOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    88 Online OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. OwlOCR icon
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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.

    106 OwlOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. GOCR icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Provides accurate and fast text detection from any image file downloaded from your device or taken with a snapshot. It also supports textual detection of a PDF and text-based handwriting detection and text translation in 114 different languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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