OSS Document Scanner AlternativesOnly apps categorised as OCR Engines

The best OCR Engine alternative to OSS Document Scanner is Tesseract, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to OSS Document Scanner and seven of them are OCR Engines so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting OCR Engine alternatives to OSS Document Scanner are Adobe Scan, dpScreenOCR, (a9t9) Free OCR Software and OwlOCR.

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  1. Tesseract icon

    Tesseract

     110 likes

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

    26 Tesseract alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Adobe Scan icon

    Adobe Scan

     14 likes

    The Adobe Scan scanner app turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple file formats including PDF and JPEG.

    123 Adobe Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  6. (a9t9) Free OCR Software icon

    (a9t9) Free OCR Software

     22 likes

    OCR software and web service to extract text from image files and PDF. The application is available as online OCR web app, OCR API, or simple to install Windows store application.

    75 (a9t9) Free OCR Software alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
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  7. OwlOCR icon

    OwlOCR

     5 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    OwlOCR screenshot 1
     
  8. CuneiForm icon

    CuneiForm

     10 likes

    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
    OCR Main Window
     
  10. SimpleOCR icon

    SimpleOCR

     3 likes

    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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