SearchOCR AlternativesOnly apps categorised as OCR Engines

The best OCR Engine alternative to SearchOCR is ABBYY FineReader PDF. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Tesseract or OwlOCR. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to SearchOCR and seven of them are OCR Engines so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting OCR Engine alternatives to SearchOCR are GOCR, SimpleOCR, CuneiForm and OCRopus.

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SearchOCR alternatives are mainly Document Scanners but may also be Image Scanners or OCR Engines. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of SearchOCR.

SearchOCR

Free • Proprietary

Searching for a specific image in a folder of thousands can be a daunting task, and traditional search engines are often limited to searching only by filename. That's where SearchOCR comes in. OCR (Optical Character...

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SearchOCR alternatives page was last updated Mar 19, 2023

ABBYY FineReader PDF
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.
84 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
- OCR Engine
- PDF Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- iPhone
- iPad
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Top ABBYY FineReader PDF Features
1. OCR
2. Convert PDF to Word document
3. Side-by-Side Comparison
4. PDF annotation
5. Edit PDF
6. Lightweight
7. Sign PDF files
8. Image to text
9. Convert PDF to image
10. Create PDF files
11. PDF OCR
12. Convert images to PDF
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ABBYY FineReader PDF VS SearchOCR
Is ABBYY FineReader PDF a good alternative to SearchOCR?
- ABBYY FineReader PDF is the most popular Windows, Mac, iPhone & iPad alternative to SearchOCR.
- ABBYY FineReader PDF is the most popular commercial alternative to SearchOCR.
- ABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and ProprietarySearchOCR is Free and Proprietary
- ABBYY FineReader PDF is LightweightSearchOCR is not according to our users

Tesseract
Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.
10 Tesseract alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- OCR Engine
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Tesseract Features
OCR
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Tesseract VS SearchOCR
Is Tesseract a good alternative to SearchOCR?
- Tesseract is the most popular Linux alternative to SearchOCR.
- Tesseract is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SearchOCR.
- Tesseract is Free and Open SourceSearchOCR is Free and Proprietary

OwlOCR
OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.
92 OwlOCR alternatives
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application type
- OCR Engine
Platforms
- Mac
OwlOCR Features
OCR
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OwlOCR VS SearchOCR
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ABBYY FineReader PDF
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 recog...

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GOCR
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
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- OCR Engine
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
GOCR Features
OCR
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SimpleOCR
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.
82 SimpleOCR alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- OCR Engine
Platforms
- Windows
SimpleOCR Features
OCR
Image Processing
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CuneiForm
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
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- OCR Engine
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
CuneiForm Features
Portable
OCR
Image Processing
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Discontinued
Last release on 2011: https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/ download
CuneiForm VS SearchOCR
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OCRopus
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
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- OCR Engine
Platforms
- Linux
OCRopus Features
OCR
Image Processing
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Discontinued
Last update was in 16 Dec 2017
OCRopus VS SearchOCR
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