PDF OCR AlternativesOnly apps categorised as OCR Engines

The best OCR Engine alternative to PDF OCR is ABBYY FineReader PDF. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Tesseract or Adobe Scan. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to PDF OCR and ten of them are OCR Engines so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting OCR Engine alternatives to PDF OCR are (a9t9) Free OCR Software, OwlOCR, GOCR and SimpleOCR.

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PDF OCR is a software that converts scanned PDF documents into editable text files in just two clicks. Its OCR engine operates 92% faster than other software, giving users the option to select specific pages for OCR.

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  1. ABBYY FineReader PDF icon
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    ABBYY FineReader PDF

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    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.

    83 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives
    ABBYY FineReader PDF screenshot 1

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Convert PDF to Word document
    3.  Side-by-Side Comparison
    4.  PDF annotation
    5.  Sign PDF files
    6.  Edit PDF
    7.  Image to text
    8.  Convert PDF to image
    9.  Create PDF files
    10.  PDF OCR
    11.  Convert images to PDF
    12.  Split and merge PDF files
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    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to PDF OCR.

    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and ProprietaryPDF OCR is also Paid and Proprietary
    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is LightweightPDF OCR is not according to our users
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    Tesseract

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

    13 Tesseract alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Tesseract Features

    1.  OCR
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  4. Adobe Scan icon
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    Adobe Scan

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    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.

    112 Adobe Scan alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    Top Adobe Scan Features

    1.  Built-in viewer
    2.  Mobile Scanner
    3.  OCR
    4.  Dark Mode
    5.  Cloud Sync
    6.  Fill PDF Forms
    7.  Full-Text Search
    8.  Combine PDF
    9.  Scanner
    10.  Auto capture
    11.  Built-in editor
    12.  Scan to PDF
    13.  PDF OCR
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    Adobe Scan

    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.

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    (a9t9) Free OCR Software

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    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.

    71 (a9t9) Free OCR Software alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows

    (a9t9) Free OCR Software Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  PDF OCR
    3.  Convert PDF to Word document
    Processing some Chinese documents
    The software includes full PDF support
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  7. OwlOCR icon
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    OwlOCR

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    OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.

    93 OwlOCR alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    OwlOCR Features

    1.  OCR
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    GOCR

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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.

    52 GOCR alternatives
    Main window

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    GOCR Features

    1.  OCR
    Options window
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  10. SimpleOCR icon
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    SimpleOCR

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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.

    83 SimpleOCR alternatives
    SimpleOCR screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    SimpleOCR Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Image Processing
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  11. CuneiForm icon
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    CuneiForm

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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...

    80 CuneiForm alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    CuneiForm Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  OCR
    3.  Image Processing
    Result of Text Recognition in a Word-File
    Discontinued

    Last release on 2011: https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/ download

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    OCRopus

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    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.

    54 OCRopus alternatives
    Main Interface

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    OCRopus Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Image Processing
    Discontinued

    Last update was in 16 Dec 2017

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  13. Nanonets icon
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    Nanonets

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    Nanonets is an LLM based OCR solution that that automates document processing and data extraction workflows. With models that do not rely on pre-defined document templates, Nanonets helps companies automate document-heavy business processes like accounts payable, order...

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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Data extraction summary view
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    You can upload files manually, or set-up an automated import from API, email, or a software.

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Recurring Tasks
    3.  Full-Text Search
    4.  PDF OCR
    5.  Convert Image to Excel
    6.  Convert PDF to Text
    7.  Image to text
    8.  Convert PDF to Word document
    9.  Accounts payable automation
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