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 Tesseract, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TextDetective are Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader PDF, Outline Knowledge Organizer and CopyFish.

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  1. ZoomReader icon
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    In combination with your iOS device's built-in camera, ZoomReader lets you magnify and read printed text by first taking a picture of an object like a book or menu, then converts the image into text using state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  2. DevTools360 icon
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    The swiss knife for your daily use, this website was developed to deliver one source for the most used tools and data conversions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • DevTools360 is the most popular SaaS alternative to TextDetective.

    • DevTools360 is Free and ProprietaryTextDetective is Paid and Proprietary
  3. PDF OCR icon
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    PDF OCR is a software that converts scanned PDF documents into editable text files in just two clicks. Its OCR engine operates 92% faster than other software, giving users the option to select specific pages for OCR.

    61 PDF OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. OCR Convert icon
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    OCR Convert is an online OCR service that allows users to convert scanned images and PDF files to editable text formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Best free OCR API, Online OCR and Searchable PDF (Sandwich PDF) Service. Try instantly, no registration required. The Cloud OCR API is a REST-based Web API to extract text from images and convert scans to searchable PDF. Free OCR software as a hosted service and as download.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. doXiview icon
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    doXiview is a free online ocr web site. Besides pure ocr, it is also possible to do image manipulation and pdf convertion.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    48h sale! Just take a photo of a text with phone number, e-mail address or URL and immediately call, write e-mail or open URL in Safari. Or just scan and OCR any text.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
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    Transym OCR (TOCR) is a leading provider of highly sophisticated, accurate and reliable optical character recognition software for developers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    ImageToText app allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by EMAIL or EVERNOTE.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  10. Condense icon
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    Typing out has come to a end. Say ‚Hello‘ to Condense. Your easy to use optical character recognition (OCR) application.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Ocrkit icon
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    OCRKit uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to recognize the text in the graphic, which is particular useful for PDFs received via e-mail, created by DTP, office applications, with a scanner or copier.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  12. LensOCR icon
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    Extract easy and fast any text on your Mac's screen.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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