Tesseract AlternativesOCR Engines and other similar apps like Tesseract

Tesseract is described as 'Js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images' and is a very popular OCR Engine in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Tesseract for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Mac apps. The best Tesseract alternative is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tesseract are ABBYY FineReader PDF, Open Scanner, Scan Thing: Scan Anything and Klippa DocHorizon.

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  1. OSS Document Scanner icon

    OSS Document Scanner

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    The OSS Document Scanner is an Open Source app to scan all your documents. You either scan using your camera or by importing an image. The app will automatically detect you document within the photo and will crop the image.

    69 OSS Document Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • F-Droid
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    • OSS Document Scanner is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to Tesseract.

    • OSS Document Scanner is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Tesseract.

    • OSS Document Scanner is Free and Open SourceTesseract is also Free and Open Source
    • OSS Document Scanner is Lightweight and Privacy focusedTesseract is not according to our users
  2. ABBYY FineReader PDF icon

    ABBYY FineReader PDF

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    Optical recognition software boasting unmatched text accuracy converts scanned documents to editable Word, Excel, or searchable PDFs while preserving layout. Supports 190 languages, simplifies processes with automated tasks, and includes PDF editing tools.

    88 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    • Most users think ABBYY FineReader PDF is a great Tesseract alternative.

    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is the most popular Windows, Mac & iPad alternative to Tesseract.

    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is the most popular commercial alternative to Tesseract.

    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and ProprietaryTesseract is Free and Open Source
    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is LightweightTesseract is not according to our users
  4. Open Scanner icon

    Open Scanner

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    Open Scanner is a fast and simple-to-use paper-scanning app with AI features to speed up your scanning workflow:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
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    ABBYY FineReader PDF

    Optical recognition software boasting unmatched text accuracy converts scanned documents to editable Word, Excel, or searchable PDFs while preserving layout. Supports 190 languages, simplifies processes with automated tasks, and ...

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  7. Klippa DocHorizon icon

    Klippa DocHorizon

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    DocHorizon is an AI-powered document processing platform that automates data extraction, fraud detection, identity verification, anonymization, and e-invoicing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    DocHorizon addresses all the limitations of Tesseract's traditional OCR features, offers easy integration, and doesn't require coding knowledge

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    • Klippa DocHorizon is the most popular Web-based & SaaS alternative to Tesseract.

    • Klippa DocHorizon is Paid and ProprietaryTesseract is Free and Open Source
    • Klippa DocHorizon is Privacy focusedTesseract is not according to our users
  8. gscan2pdf icon

    gscan2pdf

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    gscan2pdf can scan, clean the scan and do OCR on the scan or imported images (incl. existing PDFs, DjVus or other file types), and make PDF and DjVu-files with embedded OCR-text. It works together with tesseract, ocropus, cuneiform an...

    29 gscan2pdf alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    • gscan2pdf is the most popular Linux alternative to Tesseract.

    • gscan2pdf is Free and Open SourceTesseract is also Free and Open Source
  10. OwlOCR icon

    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.

    103 OwlOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. EasyOCR icon

    EasyOCR

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    Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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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.

    58 OCRopus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    ClarifyDocuments

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    ClarifyDocuments is a free AI tool that converts PDFs, images, and slides into clean, editable text. It automatically cleans, organizes, and processes content in any language, helping students and educators focus on learning.

    78 ClarifyDocuments alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  14. Parser icon

    Parser

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    An intelligent data extraction service that automates information processing. It uses advanced AI to accurately parse unstructured documents and converts them into clean, structured JSON data.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  15. CuneiForm icon

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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