The OSS Document Scanner is a free and Open Source app to transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- F-Droid
France
EU
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Tesseract AlternativesOCR Engines and other similar apps like Tesseract
Apps similar to Tesseract include OSS Document Scanner, which is free and open source. Other options are MakeACopy, ABBYY FineReader PDF, Open Scanner and ClarifyDocuments. You're spoiled for choice with Document Scanners like Tesseract: we list more than 25 alternatives for the web, Mac, Windows, iPhone and Linux.
Alternatives list
MakeACopy is an open-source document scanner app for Android that allows you to digitize paper documents with OCR functionality. The app is designed to be privacy-friendly, working completely offline without any cloud connection or tracking.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Android
- F-Droid
- OpenAPK
Germany- EU
107 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternativesOptical 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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- iPhone
- iPad
Russia
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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:
Platforms
- iPhone
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
Italy- EU
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
United Kingdom
Scan Thing is the quickest way to capture and save anything around you. Scan Thing is available on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
- Mac
United States
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 (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Thailand
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.
Platforms
- Linux
📄 Awesome OCR multiple programing languages toolkits based on ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, MNN, PaddlePaddle, TensorRT and PyTorch.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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OwlOCR 7 is a macOS OCR app for text you can see but cannot select. Capture a screen region, open an image or PDF, paste supported content, or import a photo or scan from an iPhone or iPad. Apple Vision performs fast on-device recognition.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
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Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
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