Top 15 FreeOCR Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

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. FreeOCR supports multi-page TIFFs, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed TIFFs, which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read. It can handle PDF formats and is also compatible with TWAIN scanners.

The Tesseract free OCR engine is an open source product released by Google. It was developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories between 1985 and 1995. In 1995 it was one of the top 3 performers at the OCR accuracy contest organized by University of Nevada.

1. YAGF

YAGF YAGF, Yet Another Graphical Front-end for CuneiForm, is a graphical interface for CuneiForm and Tesseract text recognition tools on the Linux platform. With YAGF you can scan images via XSane, import pages from PDF documents, perform images preprocessing and recognize texts using cuneiform from a single......

2. Chronoscan

Chronoscan Complete suite for document Scanning.Any source: scanners, multifunction printers, e-mails, fax machines, web services or folders.Automatic document classificationData entry with assisted auto fields.Extract text from PDF Files and convert to indexed data.Export data to any ODBC-compatible database.Upload documents to the Cloud.Export documents & data to your CRM/ERP.Zonal OCR, for automatic......

3. OCRopus

OCRopus OCRopus(tm) is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multilingual capabilities.The system is being developed with the generous support from Google and other organizations; the primary developers are at the IUPR Research Group at the DFKI Research Center.......

4. TopOCR-SDK

TopOCR-SDK TopOCR-SDK is an OCR application for use with "Windows Mobile"-devices. After installation of sdk.exe file you see a folder on windows mobile "My Device" - Program Files - SDK - "demo 1". A click at "demo1" starts the program: 1. Select OCR Menu button; 2. Hear 3 tones; 3. After......

5. WorldCard Mobile

WorldCard Mobile WorldCard Mobile - allows business card scanning, multiple language recognition, and contact management of business cards on your mobile phone. Use the mobile phone camera to capture business card information, such as name, family name, job title, company, mobile phone number, company phone number, home number, fax, address etc., and......

6. CuneiForm

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 language-model is applicable for 20 languages, and the results can be used as HTML, RTF or ASCII text to save, or export directly to Word or Excel.......

7. SnapReader

SnapReader SnapReader, previously TopOCR, is designed to be simple and user-friendly for use with your digital camera or smartphone. Now, wherever you go, you can quickly and easily acquire documents from business cards, newspapers, books and magazines, all without having to carry around a bulky notebook computer and scanner. SnapReader is......

8. Shape Business Card Reader

Shape Business Card Reader Import contact information from business cards directly to your iPhone/iPod Touch, BlackBerry or Windows Mobile contacts! Just take a photo of a business card and a New Contact is added!Business Card Reader scans, "reads" the picture using advanced text recognition technology and enters the data into appropriate fields of the......

9. SimpleOCR

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 custom applications.If you have a scanner and want to avoid retyping your documents, SimpleOCR is the fast, free way to do it. The......

10. ABBYY FineReader

ABBYY FineReader A highly intelligent OCR (optical character recognition) software for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents, PDFs and digital photographs. ABBYY FineReader gives you the power to unlock data in documents and images and transform them into manageable and accessible information.The application reaches beyond typical OCR capabilities......

11. Evernote

Evernote Evernote easily captures information in any environment on most devices and platforms, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, anywhere.There are 3 version groups of Evernote: WebClipper (Online, with Firefox or Chrome extension), Desktop (Windows + Mac) & mobile (Windows Mobile, iPhone, Blackberry, Palm Tre, Sony X1)Windows......

12. Dynamsoft Document Capture

Dynamsoft Document Capture Dynamsoft Document Capture enable users to convert scanned images and pdf files to editable word document. Designed to automate information capture from scanned documents or existing PDFs, users are empowered to extract text for purposes of document management, records archive, etc.Following are the highlights of Dynamsoft Document Capture.Input files for......

13. Tesseract

Tesseract 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......

14. (a9t9) Free OCR Software

(a9t9) Free OCR Software This fast and free OCR software extracts text from image files and PDF items. Online OCR web app: https://ocr.space Free OCR API: https://ocr.space/OCRAPI Open-source Windows store app: http://blog.a9t9.com/p/free-ocr-software.html The application is available as web service (online OCR), or as open-source Windows store app. If you want......

15. img2txt.com

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