ScanScan
7.7#5 in ocr softwareCN¥30 one-timeAndroidiOSWebmacOS
Visit| Fact | ScanScan | Tesseract OCR |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Handwriting OCR | Yes | No |
| Primary platform | both | desktop |
| Support | The App Store listing says users can send feedback in app settings or email [email protected]. | The README directs users to documentation, FAQs, user and developer forums, past issues, and mailing lists, and says issues should be used for bug reports rather than questions. |
| Supported inputs | both | image |
ScanScan suits students, office users, and anyone who wants to extract or translate text from images, scan IDs, or archive paper documents as PDFs. It is also useful for people who need image tables converted to Excel.
Tesseract OCR suits developers building image-text recognition into applications, as well as desktop users who need searchable PDFs. It is not suited to handwriting OCR.