Photo Scan Alternatives

Photo Scan is described as 'Lets you extract text from Images or Photos very easily and efficiently!' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Photo Scan for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Windows, iPad and Mac apps. The best Photo Scan alternative is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Photo Scan are MakeACopy, Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader PDF and Adobe Acrobat DC.

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  1. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. U Scanner icon
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    U Scanner is a simple all-in-one scanning app that allows you to capture and enhance content on the go, Digitize, save and share meeting slides, whiteboard annotations, receipts, and even napkin scribbles, with a single click.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  3. Clean Scan icon
     1 like

    Clean Scan is an open source (Apache license) mobile document scanner that lets you easily digitize your paper documents into PDFs.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  4. Readiris icon
     9 likes

    PDF and OCR publishing software (optical character recognition) for MAC & WINDOWS. Do you dream of an intelligent PDF and OCR solution to intuitively manage your documents? You've found it.

    66 Readiris alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  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.

    107 ABBYY TextGrabber alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  6. vFlat icon
     6 likes

    vFlat scans your books quickly and beautifully, flattening the curved pages with the help of deep learning.

    54 vFlat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  7. SimpleOCR icon
     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
     
  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.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. ScanHarbor icon
     1 like

    Privacy-first document scanner for Android. Scan, organize, and export multi-page PDFs with AES-256 encryption, biometric lock, and searchable PDF support. No ads, no cloud required.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  10. ClearScanner icon
     4 likes

    Scan documents easily using your mobile camera.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  11. CuneiForm icon
     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
     
  12. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
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