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Free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat OCR

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

  1. Make scanned PDFs searchable
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    OCRmyPDF by ocrmypdf · Free alternative to Adobe Acrobat OCR
    Some setupCommand-line toolHealthy
  2. Read text from images and turn PDFs into structured data
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    PaddleOCR by PaddlePaddle · Free alternative to Adobe Acrobat OCR, ABBYY FineReader
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