Free Tesseract AlternativesOCR Engines and other similar apps like Tesseract

The best free alternative to Tesseract is OSS Document Scanner, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Tesseract and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Tesseract are Open Scanner, Scan Thing: Scan Anything, gscan2pdf and EasyOCR.

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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.

    73 OSS Document Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • F-Droid
     
  2. Open Scanner icon
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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 (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  3. 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
     
  4. EasyOCR icon
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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.

    17 EasyOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. OwlOCR icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. OCRopus icon
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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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. 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.

    80 ClarifyDocuments alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. CuneiForm icon
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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
     
  9. Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
     
  10. OCRMyScreen icon
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    OCRMyScreen is a small, focused utility that lets you capture text from anywhere on your screen, especially in places where normal copy-paste simply does not work. Instead of retyping error messages, one-time codes, or text inside images and locked UIs, you press a button, drag...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Chandra icon
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    Chandra is a highly accurate OCR model that converts images and PDFs into structured HTML/Markdown/JSON while preserving layout information.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
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