The Best 36 Free Easy OCR Alternatives

  • ABBYY FineReader icon

    ABBYY FineReader

    ABBYY FineReader is an OCR software that provides unmatched text recognition accuracy and conversion capabilities, virtually eliminating retyping and reformatting of documents. Up to 190 languages are supported for text recognition.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Web

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  • Tesseract icon

    Tesseract

    Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images. The Tesseract OCR engine was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • FreeOCR icon

    FreeOCR

    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.

    Free Windows

  • TextGrabber icon

    TextGrabber

    ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly scans, translates and saves your chosen text or QR-codes from virtually any printed material. Simply take a picture of the text...

    Commercial

  • Omnipage icon

    Omnipage

    Powerful OCR technology makes OmniPage 17 the world’s best – and most accurate – solution for repurposing, editing, sorting, searching and sharing converted documents in...

    Commercial Windows

  • CuneiForm icon

    CuneiForm

    CuneiForm (OpenOCR) is a text recognition software for printed templates. Manuscripts or PDF-files, the program can not recognize, however, but table structures. The...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Prizmo icon

    Prizmo

    Prizmo 2 is a revolutionary scanning application with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in over 40 languages with powerful editing capability, text-to-speech, and...

    Commercial Mac OS X iPhone

  • Free-OCR.com icon

    Free-OCR.com

    Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply. This service is free, no...

    Free Web

  • OCRopus icon

    OCRopus

    OCRopus(tm) is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • GOCR icon

    GOCR

    GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text files. Joerg Schulenburg...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Free OCR to Word icon

    Free OCR to Word

    Free OCR to Word is text recognition software that performs all your tedious retyping and recreating work at lightning speed into Word documents you can edit on your PC...

    Free Windows

  • NewOCR.com icon

    NewOCR.com

    NewOCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service. NewOCR.com can analyze the text in any image file that you upload, and then convert the text...

    Free Web

  • YAGF icon

    YAGF

    yagf, yet another graphical front-end for cuneiform, is a graphical interface for cuneiform and tesseract text recognition tools on the linux platform.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • SimpleOCR icon

    SimpleOCR

    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...

    Free Windows