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 iPhone, Android, 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 Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader PDF, Adobe Acrobat DC and GImageReader.

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  1. i2OCR icon
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    i2OCR is a free online OCR that converts scanned documents, faxes, or screenshots into editable text. i2OCR recognizes multi-column documents written in 30+ languages, supports several input image formats, which can be loaded from disk or URL, displays recognized text as well as...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. PDFify icon
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    PDF creation with text recognition and scanner support. Features email and webpage import to PDF. Reduce file size by optimizing PDF.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  3. OCRopus icon
     5 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. NewOCR.com icon
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    NewOCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service, can analyze the text in any image file that you upload, and then convert the text from the image into text that you can easily edit on your computer..

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Quick Scan icon
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    A scanner utility that enables you to quickly scan documents and manually set the DPI level, preferred file format and JPEG file compression.

    24 Quick Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. ABBYY FineScanner is a mobile scanner that allows you to quickly create digital copies of documents that contain images and text, including contracts, articles, instructions and leaflets by using your device’s camera.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  7. Free-OCR.com icon
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    Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) is a Microsoft Office application that supports editing documents scanned by Microsoft Office Document Scanning. It was first introduced in Microsoft Office XP and is included in later Office versions including Office 2007.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. YAGF icon
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    YAGF, Yet Another Graphical Front-end for CuneiForm, is a graphical interface for CuneiForm and Tesseract text recognition tools on the Linux platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. You can use Easy Screen OCR to capture a snapshot and start OCR process. this program will detect the text from the image and start OCR process immediately. You can extract the text to copy and paste in seconds.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  11. Free OCR to Word is text recognition software that performs all your tedious retyping and recreating work at lightning speed into Word documents you can edit on your PC or archive in a document repository.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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