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  • ABBYY FineReader

  • ABBYY FineReader is an optical character recognition (OCR) software that provides unmatched text recognition accuracy and conversion capabilities, virtually eliminating retyping and reformatting of documents. Intuitive use and one-click automated tasks let you do more in fewer steps. Up to 190 languages are supported for text recognition — more than any other OCR software in this market.

    tags: batch-processing convert-to-epub create-pdf document-creation epub-converter
  • Tesseract

  • Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.

    tags: ocr text-recognition
  • CamScanner

  • Camscanner turns your phone into a portable scanner. Archive all your paper documents, receipts, notes, whiteboard discussions anywhere and anytime. Camscanner's Smart Image cropping and Image enhancement algorithm ensures the scanned images are perfectly clear and recognizable. Camscanner Free contains ads, Camscanner+ is commercial.

    tags: batch-mode client-side-encryption document-scanning dropbox-sync google-drive-sync
  • Scanbot

  • Scanbot is the leading Document and QR Code scanner app for iOS and Android. You can create premium quality scans of every document. Edit, sign and upload them to your cloud. Experience the new QR code and smart data type detection.

    tags: document-scanning ocr scan-to-online scan-to-pdf scan-to-word
  • GImageReader

  • gImageReader is a simple Gtk front-end to tesseract. Features include: - Automatic page layout detection - User can manually define and adjust recognition regions - Import images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots - Supports multipage PDF documents - Recognized text displayed directly next to the image - Basic editing of output text, including search/replace and removing line breaks - Spellchecking for output text (if corresponding dictionary installed)

    tags: character-recognition image-to-text img-to-text ocr
  • Office Lens

  • Office Lens trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and docs readable. You can use Office Lens to convert images to PDF, Word and PowerPoint files, and you can even save images to OneNote or OneDrive.

    tags: document-scanning keystone-correction mobile-scanner scan-to-pdf scan-to-word
  • 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 Tesseract engine on its own cannot read. It can handle PDF formats and is also compatible with TWAIN scanners.

    tags: image-processing ocr pdf-ocr text-recognition
  • TextGrabber

  • ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly scans, translates and saves your chosen text or QR-codes from virtually any printed material.

    tags: ocr text-recognition
  • Genius Scan

  • Genius Scan is a scanner in your pocket. Quickly scan your documents on the go and export them as JPEG or multi-page PDF files.

    tags: box client-side-encryption data-export-import document-merging document-scanning
  • CopyFish

  • Extract & translate text from images/videos/PDF on any website.

    tags: character-recognition extract-text firefox-extension image-to-text image-translation
  • 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 any format you choose.

    tags: ocr professional-ocr text-detection
  • 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. These fonts are, and the structure of the document unchanged. CuneiForm has only recently made an open source software. It was developed by the Russian company Cognitive Technologies and means something like cuneiform (from the English cuneiform = wedge-shaped). »

    tags: Portable image-processing ocr recognize scanning