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 25 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, Klippa DocHorizon and Scan Thing: Scan Anything.

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  1. 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.

    72 OSS Document Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • F-Droid
     
  2. 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.

    90 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  3. 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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    Comments about Klippa DocHorizon as an Alternative to Tesseract
    frogue
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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 Paid and ProprietaryTesseract is Free and Open Source
    • Klippa DocHorizon is Privacy focusedTesseract is not according to our users
  4. gscan2pdf icon
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. OwlOCR icon
     5 likes

    OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.

    106 OwlOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. EasyOCR icon
     Like

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Parser icon
     1 like

    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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. 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
     
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