Top 15 Free Easy OCR Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Sometimes we need to get the text out of photos or scanned documents for further editing and use. Free Easy OCR is a totally free Scan and OCR program and uses the revolutionary OCR technology which provides high recognition accuracy. It directly converts image files like scanned documents in JPG, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, EMF, WMF, DCX, PCX, JP2, etc. into editable TXT and Word. Anyone can use Free Easy OCR easily - home users, educational institutions, even corporate users. Within few clicks, you will have a fully editable copy of your paper document in your favorite word processor. ...

1. FreeOCR

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. FreeOCR supports multi-page TIFFs, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed TIFFs, which the......

2. ecoDMS

ecoDMS With ecoDMS you can archive all your documents audit-proof, manage them professionally and find them very quickly. The intelligent ecoDMS Template Designer automatically recognises documents, sorts the data to the right place, automatically fills in the necessary classification attributes, and stores the data (as an option) automatically in the archive.......

3. TinyPDF

TinyPDF Create professional quality PDF files from virtually any printable document.......

4. DVDSubEdit

DVDSubEdit DVDSubEdit allows you to visualize and make modifications to subpics (subtitles or button highlights in menus) directly inside VOB video files without the need to demux and remux the subpic stream. It can also extract subtitles to a SubRip formatted (.srt) file. It uses GOCR for optical character......

5. 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......

6. GScan

GScan Seamlessly scan or capture, OCR convert and index documents within Microsoft Office 365 or On-Premise Microsoft SharePoint: from scanners, mobile smartphones, or the cloud.......

7. 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......

8. ZoomReader

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, then converts the image into text using state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. ZoomReader will then read the text back to......

9. ScanTailor

ScanTailor Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file. Scanning, optical character recognition, and assembling multi-page......

10. Magic PDF

Magic PDF Edit PDF Files: Use Magic PDF to create, edit, modify, convert, combine, secure, open, fill, import, export and email PDF documents and PDF files. Magic PDF is the easy, award-winning, high-performance alternative solution.......

11. PDF-XChange Editor

PDF-XChange Editor The smallest, fastest, most feature-rich PDF editor/viewer available * Full Direct Content Editing (text based PDFs, not scanned/image based PDFs) * Includes OCR feature * View, Edit, and annotate PDF files......

12. Scanitto Pro

Scanitto Pro This scanner software is lightweight, fast and not overloaded with tons of unnecessary features. Fine-tune your scanner settings, make one-click document copies and save documents to multi-page PDFs – its a choice you will never regret making! If you have a scanner that you use for a limited range of......

13. Smart OCR

Smart OCR Convert scanned paper documents to editable files with Smart OCR Software.More than 99.8% accuracy - Smart OCR saves you a lot of time fixing your document laterRetains document layout and formatting - Our advanced OCR technology creates editable digital documents with layout and formatting identical to the scanned source......

14. WEBCON Business Process Suite

WEBCON Business Process Suite Thanks to its unique workflow engine and capabilities, which far exceed those offered by the SharePoint standard, WEBCON BPS enables efficient handling of the most complex workflows. WEBCON BPS offers a multilingual, user friendly and intuitive SharePoint based interface with dedicated mobile access to tasks and documents. Its graphic process......

15. Paperless

Paperless Paperless is a digital documents manager. Remember when everyone talked about how we would soon be a paperless society? Now it seems like we use paper more than ever. Let's face it - we need and we use paper. But Paperless 2 is one of those incredibly useful applications that......