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Pull text and tables out of PDFs, scans and images. Every tool here is free and open source.

Free alternative to Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader, Google Lens, Mistral OCR

111 tools

  1. Convert Word, PDF, Excel and PowerPoint files into plain text
    ★ 194kstars
    markitdown by microsoft · Free alternative to Adobe Acrobat export
    Some setupCommand-line toolHealthy
  2. Edit, merge, split, convert and read text from PDFs privately
    ★ 95.7kstars
    Stirling-PDF by Stirling-Tools · Free alternative to Adobe Acrobat, Smallpdf
    Some setupSelf-hosted app▶ Try onlineHealthy
  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
  4. Turn complex PDFs into clean text, tables and formulas
    ★ 83.1kstars
    MinerU by opendatalab · Free alternative to Mistral OCR, Adobe Acrobat
    No codingDesktop appHealthy
  5. Read text from scanned images and photos
    ★ 77.3kstars
    tesseract by tesseract-ocr · Free alternative to ABBYY FineReader
    Some setupCommand-line toolHealthy
  6. Convert PDFs and documents into text AI can use
    ★ 70.1kstars
    docling by docling-project · Free alternative to Adobe Acrobat
    Some setupCommand-line toolHealthy
  7. 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
  8. Scan, search and organize all your paper documents
    ★ 47.7kstars
    paperless-ngx by paperless-ngx · Free alternative to Evernote scanning
    Some setupSelf-hosted appHealthy
  9. Read text from images in a web browser
    ★ 38.8kstars
    tesseract.js by naptha
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  10. Make scanned PDFs searchable
    ★ 35.2kstars
    OCRmyPDF by ocrmypdf · Free alternative to Adobe Acrobat OCR
    Some setupCommand-line toolHealthy
  11. Turn PDFs into AI-ready data and make them accessible
    ★ 30.2kstars
    opendataloader-pdf by opendataloader-project
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  12. Read text from images in 80+ languages
    ★ 30.1kstars
    EasyOCR by JaidedAI
    For developersCode libraryFair
  13. Check PDFs and extract their text quickly
    ★ 19.8kstars
    pdf-inspector by firecrawl
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  14. Turn PDFs and scans into clean text, even tricky layouts
    ★ 19.8kstars
    olmocr by allenai · Free alternative to Mistral OCR
    Some setupCommand-line tool▶ Try onlineFair
  15. Turn pictures of equations into LaTeX code
    ★ 16.6kstars
    LaTeX-OCR by lukas-blecher
    No codingDesktop appFair
  16. Turn messy documents into clean data for AI
    ★ 15.7kstars
    unstructured by Unstructured-IO
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  17. Read text from captcha images (Chinese)
    ★ 14.9kstars
    ddddocr by sml2h3
    For developersCode libraryFair
  18. Parse documents quickly for AI
    ★ 13kstars
    liteparse by run-llama
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  19. Read complex tables, forms and handwriting
    ★ 12.7kstars
    chandra by datalab-to
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  20. Read Chinese text with a tiny OCR model
    ★ 12.4kstars
    chineseocr_lite by DayBreak-u
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  21. Turn PDFs and documents into text using AI vision
    ★ 12.3kstars
    zerox by getomni-ai
    For developersCode libraryFair
  22. Read, extract and edit PDFs in Python
    ★ 11.1kstars
    PyMuPDF by pymupdf
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  23. Extract text, tables and data from almost any file, scan or web page
    ★ 9.5kstars
    xberg by xberg-io
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  24. Parse document images into structured text
    ★ 9.1kstars
    Dolphin by bytedance
    For developersCode libraryUse with care
  25. Read text from images quickly in many languages
    ★ 8.4kstars
    RapidOCR by RapidAI
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  26. Turn documents and media into AI-ready data
    ★ 7.9kstars
    omniparse by adithya-s-k
    Some setupSelf-hosted appFair
  27. Scan and archive paper documents
    ★ 7.9kstars
    paperless by the-paperless-project
    Some setupSelf-hosted appUse with careArchived
  28. Download language files for Tesseract OCR
    ★ 7.7kstars
    tessdata by tesseract-ocr
    No codingGuide or readingUse with care
  29. Read text from images accurately and fast
    ★ 7.6kstars
    GLM-OCR by zai-org
    For developersCode libraryFair
  30. Convert PDFs, Word and PowerPoint into AI-ready text
    ★ 7.4kstars
    megaparse by The-Vibe-Company
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  31. Extract structured data from documents with AI
    ★ 7.4kstars
    unstract by Zipstack
    Some setupSelf-hosted appHealthy
  32. Screenshot, OCR, translate and search images
    ★ 7.4kstars
    eSearch by xushengfeng
    No codingDesktop appHealthy
  33. Convert files between formats on Windows, offline
    ★ 7kstars
    flyingmouse-format by LaoFeng-mouse
    No codingDesktop appFair
  34. Understand documents without OCR
    ★ 6.9kstars
    donut by clovaai
    For developersCode libraryUse with care
  35. Take screenshots with OCR and view images
    ★ 6.6kstars
    snow-apps by mg-chao
    No codingDesktop appFair
  36. Convert scanned books into ebooks
    ★ 6.5kstars
    pdf-craft by oomol-lab
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  37. Read text in documents with deep learning
    ★ 6.4kstars
    doctr by mindee
    For developersCode libraryHealthy
  38. Turn PDFs and images into structured data
    ★ 6.2kstars
    Parsr by axa-group
    Some setupSelf-hosted appUse with careArchived
  39. Detect and read Chinese text
    ★ 6.1kstars
    chineseocr by chineseocr
    Some setupSelf-hosted appUse with care
  40. Auto-tag and sort your Paperless documents with AI
    ★ 6kstars
    paperless-ai by clusterzx
    Some setupSelf-hosted appUse with careArchived

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