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.

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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. between 1995 and 2006 it had little work done on it, but it is probably one of the most accurate open source ocr engines available. the source code will read a binary, grey or color image and output text. a tiff reader is built in that will read uncompressed tiff images, or libtiff can be added to read compressed images. there are language files for many languages, even for text set in fraktur and blackletter typefaces.

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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.

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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.

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GImageReader

gImageReader is a simple Gtk front-end to tesseract.

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Free open-source OCR software and web service to extract text from image files and PDF.

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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.

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img2txt.com

img2txt.com is an online OCR service that allows you to get text from a picture or scanned page.

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CopyFish

Extract & translate text from images/videos/PDF on any website. Common reasons to extract text from images are if you want to google the text, store it, email it or translate it. Until now, our only option was to retype the text.

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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...

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YAGF

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

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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...

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PDF OCR

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The Best 36 Tesseract Alternatives

ABBYY FineReader

FreeOCR

GImageReader

(a9t9) Free OCR Software

Online OCR

TextGrabber

img2txt.com

Omnipage

CuneiForm

Prizmo

CopyFish

Free-OCR.com

OCRopus

GOCR

OCRFeeder

WatchOCR

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SimpleOCR

PDF OCR

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