TextDetective Alternatives

TextDetective is described as 'Text Detective finds and reads text in printed documents within seconds using your iPhone’s camera. The detected text can easily be read, edited, copied and pasted into documents, emails or other apps. It even stores all the scanned text in a history, which allows you to refer' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to TextDetective for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, Web-based and Linux apps. The best TextDetective alternative is Adobe Acrobat DC. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Tesseract or Outline Knowledge Organizer. Other great apps like TextDetective are ABBYY FineReader PDF, CopyFish, FreeOCR and Online OCR.

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  1. Adobe Acrobat DC icon
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    Manage documents effortlessly, edit PDFs, create them from other formats, and e-sign anywhere. Secure sharing and comparison tools ensure smooth workflows and data protection. New AI Assistant offers quick document insights. Perfect for desktop and web platforms.

    358 Adobe Acrobat DC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
  2. Tesseract icon
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    Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.

    37 Tesseract alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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.

    99 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. CopyFish icon
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    Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.

    82 CopyFish alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  5. FreeOCR icon
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    FreeOCR is a scan & OCR program including the Tesseract free ocr engine, also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows installer, and it is very simple to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Online OCR icon
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    Free Online OCR is a software that allows you to convert scanned PDF and images into editable Word, Text, Excel output formats.

    88 Online OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Readiris icon
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    PDF and OCR publishing software (optical character recognition) for MAC & WINDOWS. Do you dream of an intelligent PDF and OCR solution to intuitively manage your documents? You've found it.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly digitizes fragments of printed text and turns the recognized result into action: call, email, follow links, find on maps, translate into 100+ languages, edit, voice over and share in any convenient way.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  10. SimpleOCR icon
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    SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for developers to use in their custom applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. VietOCR icon
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    A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Provides optical character recognition for Vietnamese and other languages supported by Tesseract.

    Cost / License

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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