Simple Scan is an easy-to-use application, designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.


Smart OCR is described as 'Convert scanned text, images and scanned PDF files into editable documents with Smart OCR' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are five alternatives to Smart OCR for Windows, Linux, Flathub, GNOME and Mac. The best Smart OCR alternative is Simple Scan, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Smart OCR are VueScan, Scanitto Pro, Windows Scan and PDF to Text.
Simple Scan is an easy-to-use application, designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.


Scans documents, photos, and film on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with support for over 1200 scanners, PDF, JPEG, TIFF, and TXT output, advanced adjustments, batch processing, OCR, color correction, obsolete device support, and easy-to-use interface.

Scanitto Pro is Windows-based software application for image scanning, direct printing and copying, basic editing and text recognition (OCR).



If you have a scanner, this app makes it easy to scan documents and pictures and save them where you'd like.


PDF to Text is used to quickly convert PDF documents to plain text files in batch mode. It works without Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, and has Command Line Interface (CLI), fast and accurate conversion ability, friendly GUI, small size.

Windows scan is not an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program.