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Free alternatives to ABBYY FineReader

These open-source projects do a similar job for free, though most need more setup.

  1. Copy text from screenshots, images and PDFs, offline
    ★ 48.4kstars
    Umi-OCR by hiroi-sora · Free alternative to ABBYY FineReader, Google Lens
    No codingDesktop appFair
  2. Read text from scanned images and photos
    ★ 77.3kstars
    tesseract by tesseract-ocr · Free alternative to ABBYY FineReader
    Some setupCommand-line toolHealthy
  3. Read text from images and turn PDFs into structured data
    ★ 92.2kstars
    PaddleOCR by PaddlePaddle · Free alternative to Adobe Acrobat OCR, ABBYY FineReader
    For developersCode library▶ Try onlineHealthy