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...

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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 to it later. every step is accessible.

text detective works best with the clean and crisp text you find in documents, and at a distance of about the length of a forearm. you can use it wherever you go, and you don’t need to worry about network coverage – it even works on the plane.

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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.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Web

PDF annotation Edit PDF Scan to PDF Sign PDF files Create PDF files Batch processing Convert PDF to Word document Convert images to PDF Image to text Jpg to text Pdf protection Convert PDF to ePub Convert PDF to Excel document Convert PDF to HTML Convert PDF to image Convert PDF to Text Side by Side comparison Convert Word documents to PDF
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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
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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.

Free Windows
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Online OCR

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

Free Web

Convert PDF to Word document Image to text
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Outline+

Note-taking becomes intuitive again Organize your personal, work and class notes. View and edit Microsoft OneNote on iPad and Mac. Your OneNote companion on iPad Note-taking becomes intuitive again.

Commercial Mac OS X iPad

Built in viewer Sync with Dropbox
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PDFpen

Edit PDFs easily with PDFpen! Add text, images and signatures. Make corrections. Fill out PDF forms. Merge, delete and reorder pages. Pro exist version with create and...

Commercial Mac OS X iPhone iPad

PDF annotation Fill PDF Forms Sign PDF files PDF OCR Convert PDF to Word document
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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.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome Firefox

Firefox extension Screenshot OCR PDF OCR Image to 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...

Free Web
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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
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Readiris

Convert any paper document, image or PDF into editable and searchable digital files (Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, etc.) using Readiris 14's Optical Character Recognition...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

Convert PDF to Word document Convert PDF to Excel document
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WatchOCR

WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

Free Open Source Linux

PDF OCR Convert images to PDF Image to text
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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
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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.

Free Open Source Linux
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PDF OCR

PDF OCR for 39.95 USD: Editable - Edit Scanned PDF Documents like editing a text file! Easily - OCR PDF To Text Just In Only 2 Clicks. Fast - PDF OCR has a fast...

Commercial Windows

Portable Convert images to PDF Image to text
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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...

Free Windows

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The Best 35 TextDetective Alternatives

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CuneiForm

Prizmo

Outline+

PDFpen

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