OCR Text Recognition Tool Alternatives

Apps similar to OCR Text Recognition Tool include Tesseract, which is free and open source. Other options are Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader PDF, Preview and GImageReader. There's no shortage of Document Scanners like OCR Text Recognition Tool, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, the web, iPhone and Linux.

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  1. CuneiForm icon
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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. VietOCR icon
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    A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Provides optical character recognition for Vietnamese and other languages supported by Tesseract.

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    • Mac
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  3. Text-R icon
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    Simple optical text recognition (OCR) for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. 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.

    59 Prizmo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
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  5. Kofax Omnipage icon
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    Kofax OmniPage offers industry-leading optical character recognition (OCR) for fast, easy accurate document conversion. Instantly turn paper and digital documents into files you can edit, search and share securely.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. i2OCR icon
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    i2OCR is a free online OCR that converts scanned documents, faxes, or screenshots into editable text. i2OCR recognizes multi-column documents written in 30+ languages, supports several input image formats, which can be loaded from disk or URL, displays recognized text as well as...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. PDFify icon
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    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
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  8. NewOCR.com icon
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    NewOCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service, can analyze the text in any image file that you upload, and then convert the text from the image into text that you can easily edit on your computer..

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. OCRopus icon
     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

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. Free-OCR.com icon
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    Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) is a Microsoft Office application that supports editing documents scanned by Microsoft Office Document Scanning. It was first introduced in Microsoft Office XP and is included in later Office versions including Office 2007.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Free OCR to Word is text recognition software that performs all your tedious retyping and recreating work at lightning speed into Word documents you can edit on your PC or archive in a document repository.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
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