OCRmyPDF Alternatives

OCRmyPDF is described as 'adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched - jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to OCRmyPDF for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Web-based, Linux and iPhone apps. The best OCRmyPDF alternative is Adobe Acrobat DC. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Tesseract or FreeOCR. Other great apps like OCRmyPDF are ABBYY FineReader PDF, OwlOCR, Vovsoft OCR Reader and GOCR.

OCRmyPDF alternatives are mainly PDF Editors but may also be Document Scanners or PDF Readers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of OCRmyPDF.

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OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched - jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF

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Adobe Acrobat DC
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Paid • Proprietary
PDF Editor
PDF Reader
Document Manager
Mac
Windows
Online
279 Adobe Acrobat DC alternatives
Make your job easier with Adobe Acrobat DC, the trusted PDF creator. Use Acrobat to convert, edit, and sign PDF files at your desk or on the go.
- - Adobe Acrobat DC is the most popular Web-based, Windows & Mac alternative to OCRmyPDF.
- - Adobe Acrobat DC is the most popular commercial alternative to OCRmyPDF.
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Adobe Acrobat DC Features
1. Fill PDF FormsAdobe Acrobat DC supports forms in PDF files.
2. PDF annotationAdobe Acrobat DC support PDF Annotation for highlighting, notes etc
3. Cloud SyncSync your data (notes, documents, bookmarks, etc.) across your different devices and to the cloud.
4. Sign PDF filesAdobe Acrobat DC support signing a PDF document digitally on a touch screen etc.
5. Split PDF filesAdobe Acrobat DC can split PDF files into multiple documents.
6. Combine PDFCombine, merge and arrange PDF files into one document.
Edit PDF
PDF OCR
Text editing
Signing PDF Documents
Split and merge PDF files
Text Highlighting
Publishing
Print to PDF
PDF Redaction
Document sharing
ABBYY FineReader PDF
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Online
80 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives
ABBYY FineReader PDF is an OCR software that provides unmatched text recognition accuracy and conversion capabilities, virtually eliminating retyping and reformatting of documents. Up to 190 languages are supported for text recognition.
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ABBYY FineReader PDF Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. PDF annotationABBYY FineReader PDF support PDF Annotation for highlighting, notes etc
3. LightweightABBYY FineReader PDF consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
4. Sign PDF filesABBYY FineReader PDF support signing a PDF document digitally on a touch screen etc.
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PDF OCR
Convert PDF to image
Create PDF files
Document creation
Convert PDF to Text
Convert PDF to HTML
Convert Word documents to PDF
Tesseract
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
70 Tesseract alternatives
Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.
- - Tesseract is the most popular Linux alternative to OCRmyPDF.
- - Tesseract is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to OCRmyPDF.
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Tesseract Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
FreeOCR
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
76 FreeOCR alternatives
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.
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FreeOCR Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Google Drive integration
PDF OCR
Image Processing
Discontinued
For 7 years the app has no updates. Latest release: March 2015 v5.4
OwlOCR
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
85 OwlOCR alternatives
OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text. All conversion is done securely on-device - none of your images or files are sent to third-party services in the cloud as most applications do.
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OwlOCR Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Vovsoft OCR Reader
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Freemium • Proprietary
Document Scanner
Windows
54 Vovsoft OCR Reader alternatives
OCR Reader is an image to text converter program that allows you to extract text from PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WEBP, and BMP image files using Optical Character Recognition.
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Vovsoft OCR Reader Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. PortableVovsoft OCR Reader can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
3. Built-in viewerVovsoft OCR Reader shows you a quick preview of an image, page or file in supported formats.
Image to text
GOCR
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
50 GOCR alternatives
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.
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GOCR Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
PDF Parser
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Freemium • Proprietary
Online
50 PDF Parser alternatives
Extract PDF data to JSON format with our automated tool. No manual intervention is required.
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SearchOCR
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
49 SearchOCR alternatives
Searching for a specific image in a folder of thousands can be a daunting task, and traditional search engines are often limited to searching only by filename. That's where SearchOCR comes in. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology allows our software to search for...
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SearchOCR Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
ScanTexter
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Freemium • Proprietary
Mac
53 ScanTexter alternatives
Scan all the text on screen and translate them all at once.
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ScanTexter Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Image to text
LensOCR
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Freemium • Proprietary
Mac
63 LensOCR alternatives
Extract easy and fast any text on your Mac's screen.
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LensOCR Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Nanonets
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Freemium • Proprietary
Online
Software as a Service (SaaS)
50 Nanonets alternatives
Nanonets uses advanced OCR and Deep Learning to extract relevant information from unstructured text and documents.
- - Nanonets is the most popular SaaS alternative to OCRmyPDF.
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Nanonets Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.