OCR Tools Apps and Alternatives

8 applications in this hubLast updated: Jan 12th 2024, 02:52 GMT

Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated as OCR, is a technology which can translate the characters on an image file into a text documents that can be easily interpreted by any text processing tool.

OCR-dedicated applications can be used for converting books into text files, to translate office documents into electronic files or to publish text online.

Additionally, OCR tools can also extract images and text, thus enabling users to easily edit the data.
 
Furthermore, one can also use these utilities to locate a keyword or to distribute their files with greater ease.

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  • 541,336 downloads
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ABBYY FineReader Corporate

ABBYY FineReader Corporate 16.0.14.7295

OCR application that can turn scanned photos, PDF files and other types of documents into searchab...

Aug 13th 2023, 22:21 GMT
Windows 10 64 bit / Windows 11
     
  • 42,715 downloads
  • 9.28 MB
SimpleOCR

SimpleOCR 3.1

Conveniently convert images to text with the help of this simplistic yet highly efficient optical ...

Nov 23rd 2007, 11:36 GMT
Windows All
     
  • 65,912 downloads
  • 2.18 MB
OCR Image to Text Conversion Tool

OCR Image to Text Conversion Tool 5.0.3477.10639

Generates ASCII text from an image file with the TIF, BMP, JPG, JPEG or GIF format, and saves it t...

Dec 23rd 2009, 18:10 GMT
Windows All
     
  • 566,481 downloads
  • 10.7 MB
FreeOCR

FreeOCR 5.41

Scan images or PDF files and extract the text the contain, exporting it to editable form, so you c...

Mar 4th 2015, 09:48 GMT
Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows Vista 64 bit / Windows 7 / Windows 7 64 bit / Windows 8 / Windows 8 64 bit / Windows 2003 / Windows 10
     
  • 8,079 downloads
  • 8.33 MB
Screen OCR

Screen OCR 18.1

This simple and efficient application is able to recognize text from various dialog boxes, protect...

Dec 27th 2017, 16:23 GMT
Windows 7 / Windows 7 64 bit / Windows 8 / Windows 8 64 bit
     
  • 13,687 downloads
  • 151 MB
TopOCR

TopOCR 61.0

Contains both an editor/viewer and a word processor for saving and editing, which includes an inte...

Feb 23rd 2022, 23:44 GMT
Windows 10 / Windows 10 64 bit / Windows 11
     
  • 15,682 downloads
  • 40.7 MB
PDF OCR

PDF OCR 4.8.0

A handy software solution that comes with a very intuitive interface, designed to convert PDF data...

Apr 28th 2022, 13:48 GMT
Windows 2K / Windows XP / Windows XP 64 bit / Windows Vista / Windows Vista 64 bit / Windows 7 / Windows 7 64 bit / Windows 8 / Windows 8 64 bit / Windows 2003 / Windows 10 / Windows 10 64 bit / Windows 11
     
  • 46,336 downloads
  • 470 MB
Readiris Pro

Readiris Pro 23.1.95.0 / 17.4 Build 192

An application that quickly, easily and, last but not least, accurately converts paper documents, ...

Jan 12th 2024, 02:52 GMT
Windows 7 / Windows 7 64 bit / Windows 8 / Windows 8 64 bit / Windows 10 / Windows 10 64 bit / Windows 11