OCRopus Alternatives

OCRopus has been discontinued. Similar apps include Tesseract, which is free and open source. Other options are Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader PDF, ClarifyDocuments and Chandra. Document Scanners like OCRopus are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, the web, Mac, iPhone and Linux.

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  1. MinerU icon
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    Free all-in-one document parsing tool. Accurate parsing, efficient extraction, providing a more fluent and accurate parsing experience.

    19 MinerU alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  2. 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
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  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly digitizes fragments of printed text and turns the recognized result into action: call, email, follow links, find on maps, translate into 100+ languages, edit, voice over and share in any convenient way.

    114 ABBYY TextGrabber alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  6. SimpleOCR icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  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.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Text-R icon
     1 like

    Simple optical text recognition (OCR) for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Chronoscan icon
     3 likes

    Complete suite for document Scanning. Any source: scanners, multifunction printers, e-mails, fax machines, web services or folders. Automatic document classification Data entry with assisted auto fields. Extract text from PDF Files and convert to indexed data. Export data to any.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
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  12. Kofax Omnipage icon
     11 likes

    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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