FreeOCR.AI converts photos, scans, and screenshots into editable text through OCR.
Alternatives to EasyOCR
Tesseract OCR is a free, open-source engine that recognizes text in images.
Open-Capture captures documents, extracts information with OCR and AI, and exports results to management software.
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ScanScan
ScanScan, also known as Baimiao, extracts text from images and scans documents.
AndroidiOSWebmacOS7.7CN¥30 one-time - 5
Prizmo
Prizmo scans and edits documents and business cards on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, then uses optical character recognition to make their contents readable as text.
Free planiOSmacOS7.7Free plan - 6
Tungsten OmniPage
Tungsten OmniPage converts paper documents, PDFs, and images into editable, searchable files for sharing.
APILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted7.6€99 one-time - 7
PaddleOCR
PaddleOCR is an open-source OCR and document-parsing toolkit that can run through its official website or be called through an API.
Free planAndroidiOS7.5Free plan - 8

docTR
docTR is a free deep-learning OCR library from docTR, founded in 2021, for document automation and research.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted7.5Free plan - 9
Surya
Surya is a 650M-parameter OCR model for recognizing text, analyzing page layout and reading order, and identifying tables.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted7.3From $400 a month - 10
Avidemux
Free planOpen sourceWebLinuxmacOSWindows7.3Free plan - 11
Readiris PDF
Readiris PDF is desktop software for turning documents into searchable PDFs and exporting content to Word.
macOSWindows7.2 - 12
NewOCR
NewOCR is a web OCR service that converts scanned documents and images into editable text, with a REST API for file-based requests.
Free planWebAPI7.2$0.50 one-time - 13
OCRFeeder
OCRFeeder is a Linux application for analyzing document layouts and recognizing text in images.
Free planLinux7.1Free plan - 14
OCRmyPDF
OCRmyPDF is free software that adds searchable text to scanned PDF files while preserving the original document as much as possible.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted7.1Free plan - 15

DocuOCR
DocuOCR is a web service that extracts text and structured data from invoices, contracts, receipts, forms, statements, IDs, and other documents.
Web7.1From $24 a month - 16
i2OCR
i2OCR extracts text from images and scanned PDF documents in a web browser, with no installation required.
Free planWeb7.0Free plan - 17
ChronoScan
Free planAPIWindows7.0€245 one-time - 18
OnlineOCR
OnlineOCR is a web OCR service that turns scanned PDFs, faxes, photographs, and camera images into editable or searchable documents.
WebAPI6.9 - 19
OCR4all
OCR4all is free, open-source software for recognizing historical printed and handwritten material.
Free planWebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.9Free plan - 20

Captika
Free planWindows6.9$515 one-time - 21
PaperSurvey.io
WebAPI6.9From $200 a year - 22
Scribe OCR
Scribe OCR recognizes text in images and helps turn scanned material into digitized documents.
Free planWebSelf-hosted6.8Free plan - 23
PDFify
PDFify is a macOS desktop app for combining pages from files, clipboard contents, screenshots, emails, webpages, scans, and iPhone or iPad pages into PDFs.
Free planmacOS6.8Free plan - 24
Easy Screen OCR
Easy Screen OCR is a macOS app that turns text in screenshots and images into editable text.
Free planmacOS6.8From $19.99 a year - 25

ABBYY Screenshot Reader
ABBYY Screenshot Reader is a Windows desktop app that captures screen content and converts text and tables into editable formats, or saves the capture as an image.
Windows6.7$9.99 one-time - 26
Asprise OCR SDK
Asprise OCR SDK is a developer toolkit that extracts text and barcode information from images and scanned documents for use in applications.
LinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.7$5,998 one-time - 27

ABBYY FineReader PDF
iOSmacOSWindows6.6 - 28
Transym TOCR
Windows6.6£60 one-time - 29
GNU Ocrad
GNU Ocrad is an OCR program and library for turning images into text.
Free planLinuxSelf-hosted6.5Free plan - 30
gImageReader
gImageReader is a free desktop OCR front end to Tesseract for Linux and Windows.
Free planLinuxWindows6.5Free plan

