OwlOCR Alternatives

OwlOCR is described as 'Offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text' and is a OCR Engine in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to OwlOCR for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, iPhone and Linux apps. The best OwlOCR alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like OwlOCR are OSS Document Scanner, Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader PDF and Adobe Acrobat DC.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
OwlOCR alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Text Lens icon
     5 likes

    Extract text from anywhere on your screen (OCR). Perfect for capturing text from videos, PDFs, presentations, or any app where copying isn't possible.

    37 Text Lens alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. TextSniper icon
     13 likes

    TextSniper is a super useful app to quickly capture unselectable text. Use it to capture and recognize text from presentations, trainings, screencasts,images, pictures, webpages, video tutorials, photos, PDFs etc. Literally from anywhere on your mac's screen.

    58 TextSniper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. Chandra icon
     2 likes

    Chandra is a highly accurate OCR model that converts images and PDFs into structured HTML/Markdown/JSON while preserving layout information.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  4. Adobe Scan icon
     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.

    128 Adobe Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  5. OCRmyPDF icon
     15 likes

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

    21 OCRmyPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • elementary OS
     
  7. SikuliX icon
     7 likes

    SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Scanit icon
     1 like

    Meet Scanit, a simple yet powerful scanner app that lets you quickly scan any kind of documents and convert them into PDF’s.

    65 Scanit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
You are at page 2 of OwlOCR alternatives