The Best 36 Free Easy OCR Alternatives

  • ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK

    Highly-accurate ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK is available for everyone in a cloud through web API. OCR, ICR, barcode recognition, business card recognition, handprinted text...

    Freemium Web

  • i2OCR

    i2OCR is a free online OCR that converts scanned documents, faxes, or screenshots into editable text. i2OCR recognizes multi-column documents written in 30+ languages...

    Free Web

  • VietOCR

    A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Supports optical character recognition for Vietnamese language.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Anyline

    Anyline is a mobile text recognition SDK enabling developers to build text recognition apps without having any knowledge about OCR.

    Commercial Android iPhone iPad Windows Phone Xamarin Studio

  • Microsoft Office Document Imaging

    Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) is a Microsoft Office application that supports editing documents scanned by Microsoft Office Document Scanning. It was first...

    Free Windows

  • OmniPage Cloud Service

    The OmniPage Cloud Service is a cloud computing platform built on the OmniPage Capture SDK. It exposes web services that allow for large scale OCR processing of input...

    Commercial Web

  • ZoomReader

    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...

    Free iPhone

  • OCR Cloud 2.0 API

    WiseTrend OCR Cloud 2.0 platform provides Web API access to some of the most powerful OCR capabilities to-date through multiple channels – via API using a POST request...

    Commercial Web

  • Image To Text

    ImageToText app allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by EMAIL or EVERNOTE. Simply take a picture of a document that you would...

    Free iPhone

  • Smart Scanner

    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. ...

    Commercial

  • TextDetective

    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...

    Commercial

  • Transym OCR

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

    Commercial Windows

  • Leafdoc

    World-class online document recognition service. Accepting images via email, FTP and web services, individuals, companies and organisations of all sizes can convert...

    Commercial Web