Ocr Software reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 160 Reddit reviews across 35 subreddits and 53 posts to rank the best Ocr Software brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/software, r/TranslationStudies, r/DataHoarder, r/archlinux, r/accessibility. Top-rated brands include ABBYY (4.4/5), Nanonets (4.3/5), Tesseract (3.8/5).
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Reviews160
Subreddits35
Posts53
Brands85
Products27
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#1
ABBYY
4.4
(21)
"The leading OCR software for PDFs is still ABBYY Finereader"
"ABBYY FineReader is a popular paid OCR software program that is known for its high accuracy and wide range of features."
"Abbyy Fine Reader"
"Its OCR engine is really good"
"ABBYY FineReader imho."
"ABBYY Finereader and Nuance Omnipage."
"Abbyy is the standard that all other OCR software is held too."
"ABBYY FineReader, probably. Check it out"
"For Japanese I've found ABBYY to be a bit better than Adobe"
"Abbyy had pretty good features for handwriting in forms"
#2
Nanonets
4.3
(9)
"Nanonets crushes Abbyy for small and difficult to read text."
"Nanonets supports 200+ languages."
"Extract text from scanned documents using Nanonets."
"Check out [Nanonets](http://www.nanonets.com) \- has support for German and Swedish."
"They offer a free trial too. It should work for all your OCR requirements."
"Maybe this can help?"
"You can try Nanonets."
"It can recognize handwritten text with 95% accuracy too."
"This sounds tailor-made for something like Nanonets."
#3
Tesseract
3.8
(10)
"Tesseract engine supports Georgian."
"I've used tesseract with great success."
"I have built a Linux server for a business environment using Tesseract (which is free/open source) which is the backend for a lot of paid OCR services anyway."
"Tesseract is about as good as it gets for Open Source OCR."
"Tesseract-OCR is open source."
"For OCR, I always install tesseract + aspell + desired language packs."
"I'd had good experiences with Tessseract. It's free and opensource."
"Meanwhile, Tesseract."
"You can use tesseract to scan just a snippet of each page too, but it's a bit involved."
"Tesseract (free software)."
#4
Adobe
4.2
(9)
"Acrobat and Trados are the best imo."
"Very good luck with whatever the built-in OCR engine is in Acrobat Professional."
"The two big ones I know are an Adobe one and another called ABBYY."
"Maybe try Adobe Acrobat?"
"If you just want to quickly OCR a scanned document, I would tell them to just open the document in Adobe Acrobat."
"Adobe works a lot better than what many scanners have built in."
"Adobe Acrobat DC is pretty good."
"Adobe Acrobat DC is pretty good"
"Acrobat Pro does a good job for me."
#5
OCRmyPDF
4.6
(5)
"Very reliable."
"OCRmyPDF all the way!"
"Had the best success with ocrmypdf."
"OCRmyPDF, free and open source"
"Ocrmypdf does support multiple languages, and my impression of its OCR is that it's good."
#6
OCRvision
4.2
(5)
"Please have a look at OCRvision."
"OCRvision works on one page at a time, so there is no need to load the whole file into computer memory."
"Please have a look at OCRvision. It can monitor a folder and automatically OCR scanned files."
"OCRvision OCR software allows multi-languages."
"Please have a look at OCRvision OCR software."
#7
4.5
(4)
"You should definitely check out Cloud Vision API and Amazon Textract"
"Google AppSheet is my favorite OCR tool."
"Have you tried using Google Lens app with the 'Homework' scanning feature on Android?"
"I have got pretty good results using azure and Google OCR as compared to Abby."
#8
OmniPage
4.0
(4)
"You could try omnipage."
"I'd recommend either omnipage or abbyy."
"Two other high quality options are Readiris and OmniPage."
"[OmniPage] is very good."
#10
gImageReader
4.0
(3)
"Switched to gImageReader-qt because it fits in looks wise on KDE."
"GImageReader can recognize text from images and PDFs to editable text"
"GImageReader. It has a Qt UI option."
#11
ABBYY FineReader
4.0
(3)
"There are solutions like ABBYY Finereader and gImageReader."
"Software: ABBYY FineReader (included with some scanners)."
"I'm interested to know how FineReader compares with Acrobat Professional."
#12
Amazon
5.0
(2)
"You should definitely check out Cloud Vision API and Amazon Textract"
"Amazon Textract."
#13
SimpleTex
4.5
(2)
"Try SimpleTex is free and easy to use, I've been using it everyday for 3 months now."
"I’ve found simpletex.net pretty good for handwritten equations."
#14
ReadIris
4.0
(2)
"Best value OCR I've tried is Readiris 17 - get the $99 pro version cause it compresses PDF's."
"I've used ReadIris for years and it's served me well."
#15
Bill.com
4.0
(2)
"I used bill.com a while back. I have high standards for software and I was pleasantly surprised by its functionality."
"I was pleasantly surprised by its functionality and smoothness."
#16
Parsio
4.0
(2)
"Try Parsio, it uses AI to parse general documents, forms, tables, invoices, receipts, ID documents etc."
"You can use Parsio (parsio.io)"
#17
breezedeus
4.0
(2)
"Pix2Text (P2T) is a Free Alternative to Mathpix."
"Try this: https://github.com/breezedeus/pix2text"
#18
Foxit
4.0
(2)
"Foxit Phantom works for my Pro X."
"I'm using Foxit Phantom for Business and it works wonders."
#19
Structifi
4.0
(2)
"Could try this tool, which is use ocr for image and pdf."
"Could try this tool, which is use ocr for image and pdf."
#20
Microsoft
3.5
(2)
"Has very good ocr functions now."
"You can also use Microsoft One Note to OCR images also if you're at a computer that has it installed."
#21
Capture2Text
3.0
(2)
"Try this: http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/."
"There's a good freebie here http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/."
#22
NAPS
5.0
(1)
"It's the best free and fully functional scanner software."
#23
Microsoft Math Solver
5.0
(1)
"I would say Microsoft Math is quite a bit better than it's competition."
#24
Adobe Acrobat Pro
5.0
(1)
"Nevermind. Adobe is on it. Acrobat pro does exactly what I was looking for."
#25
Infrrd
5.0
(1)
"I would ask you to check out Infrrd's solutions for image processing."
#26
aitranslations
5.0
(1)
"Aitranslations AI works great for OCRing and translating multi-language PDFs."
#27
Devenger
5.0
(1)
"The best we were able to find is from a small Brazilian startup called Devenger"
#28
Bitwar OCR Text Scanner
5.0
(1)
"The best OCR text recognition that can help you to copy text from PDF or image to text or Word easily for free!"
#29
Trados
5.0
(1)
"Acrobat and Trados are the best imo."
#30
Docsumo
5.0
(1)
"It’s been super easy to work with."
#31
Grabtext
5.0
(1)
"The image-to-text OCR was incredibly accurate."
#32
pdf2searchablepdf
5.0
(1)
"Try pdf2searchablepdf."
#33
Able2Extract
5.0
(1)
"I use Able2Extract and absolutely love it."
#34
iCaptur
5.0
(1)
"ICaptur CAD OCR is a great option. It efficiently extracts both printed and handwritten text from CAD documents."
#35
MathKey
4.0
(1)
"MathKey -latex converter is a OCR keyboard for iPhone /ipad that will output latex, or output rendered Tex as an image."
#36
Copyfish
4.0
(1)
"Copyfish"
#37
UScan AI
4.0
(1)
"You need to try UScan AI : Text Capture & OCR mobile app."
#38
Google Docs
4.0
(1)
"Google Docs has free OCR if you don't mind uploading your images."
#39
OneNote
4.0
(1)
"Apparently one in onenote is decent."
#40
HP
4.0
(1)
"There is something called GT Text that is base off of the google and HP open source project. It actually works pretty well."
#41
gScan2PDF
4.0
(1)
"I'm using gScan2PDF which does what you've mentioned."
#42
Square 9
4.0
(1)
"Look into square nine. Your business could use it as well."
#43
Pleco
4.0
(1)
"I paid for the Pleco app on my iPhone. It has OCR linked to the dictionary which seems to work pretty well."
#44
Solidworks
4.0
(1)
"Its primary feature is its OCR tool that can read PDFs, pictures, CAD drawings, etc."
#45
Mathpix
4.0
(1)
"Mathpix is not open source, but pretty good."
#46
Skanlite
4.0
(1)
"I personally have used Skanlite and it has worked well for my needs."
#47
Paperwork
4.0
(1)
"You might want to look into Paperwork, it aims at doing what you want I believe."
#48
Tesseract OCR
4.0
(1)
"The Tesseract OCR engine (from Google, opensource) is very powerful."
#49
OCR Geek
4.0
(1)
"Use this link: https://www.ocrgeek.com/ocr-features.php"
#50
PowerToys
4.0
(1)
"[PowerToys Text Extractor.] Or get the standalone app."
#51
NAPS2
4.0
(1)
"Try NAPS2. Dragging image onto it does OCR."
#52
ocr.space
4.0
(1)
"My choice - https://ocr.space/."
#53
Microsoft Word
4.0
(1)
"Word 2016 onwards has the ability to open PDF files natively and convert them for editing"
#54
Evernote
4.0
(1)
"OCR in Evernote is on point."
#55
Adobe Acrobat
4.0
(1)
"Adobe acrobat does this natively."
#56
Bluebeam
4.0
(1)
"It's probably the most powerful pdf reader I've used but it's been a few years since my current job doesn't need it."
#57
PDF-XChange
4.0
(1)
"PDF-XChange Editor."
#58
Toshiba
4.0
(1)
"The built in ocr works well, maybe 90 to 95%"
#59
Texti.fyi
4.0
(1)
"Check out Texti.fyi ! Takes both image and pdf"
#60
LLMWhisperer
4.0
(1)
"Two options worth exploring are LLMWhisperer and Marker/Surya OCR"
#61
OCR Solutions
4.0
(1)
"[OCR Solutions](http://www.ocrsolutions.com)"
#62
SimpleOCR
4.0
(1)
"SimpleOCR is a powerful free OCR software that supports more than 100+ language with high accuracy rate."
#63
OCRKit
4.0
(1)
"I like OCRKit for the workflow."
#64
Office Lens
4.0
(1)
"Office lens is pretty good and it's free."
#65
Convertio
4.0
(1)
"I found Convertio to be one of best."
#66
PDF X-Change Editor
4.0
(1)
"I’ve used PDF X-Change Editor successfully, OCR’d a whole manual without problems"
#67
Prizmo
4.0
(1)
"[Prizmo] is the best I've used."
#68
Nitro Pro
4.0
(1)
"I liked Nitro Pro PDF readers OCR."
#69
Iris
4.0
(1)
"There is only one alternative to abbyy which is Iris ocr."
#70
pdfsandwich
4.0
(1)
"I've always used pdfsandwich."
#71
Pytesseract
4.0
(1)
"Pytesseract has always been my go to."
#72
XSB SWISS
4.0
(1)
"Checkout XSB SWISS, I believe they have the capability you’re looking for."
#73
Extractio
4.0
(1)
"For extracting data from pdf to txt for ANY document format: https://extractio.web.app/"
#74
Docparser
4.0
(1)
"For consistent templates or consistently formatted documents: https://docparser.com/"
#75
Tabula
4.0
(1)
"I've had great success with tabula. It's meant for tables but maybe it can help you with your project."
#76
RQLuo
4.0
(1)
"[https://github.com/RQLuo/MixTeX-Latex-OCR](https://github.com/RQLuo/MixTeX-Latex-OCR) win10&11 only, press win+v to enable the clipboard."
#77
KADMOS
3.0
(1)
"Have you tried [KADMOS for IrfanView](https://www.irfanview.info/plugins/kadmos/)? It’s far from perfect for, say, books, but I reckon it might be fine with receipts?"
#78
TextBridge
3.0
(1)
"I used textbridge way long ago. Worked fine after 'training'."
#79
OCR.best
3.0
(1)
"For me OCR.best worked the best, even better than offline Tesseract"
#81
IRIS
3.0
(1)
"You could try read IRIS, I tried that a long time ago."
#82
Nuance
3.0
(1)
"Nuance isnt great."
#83
Project Naptha
3.0
(1)
"Not really sure if this is what you're looking for but project naptha."
#84
regex4ocr
3.0
(1)
"Regex4ocr python library seems to be the one you want."
#85
Kofax
2.0
(1)
"I use Kofax OmniPage on an enterprise level for day-to-day conversions and it still sucks for handwriting"
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