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Tesseract OCR is a free, open-source engine for extracting printed text from images. It supports more than 100 languages and image formats including PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP, and BMP. Developers can run it from the command line, use its C or C++ API, or work through language wrappers; outputs include plain text, hOCR, PDF, TSV, ALTO, and PAGE. It does not include a graphical interface, and PDF files must be converted before Tesseract can read their page images.

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    OCR.space

    Free plan AndroidAPIExtension+6

    Online OCR and searchable PDFs with an API — OCR.space adds online image and PDF conversion, searchable PDF creation, and an API with three OCR engines.

    7.2 Free plan · paid from $30/mo Visit site
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    docTR

    by docTR
    Free plan APILinuxMac+2

    Document automation with layout detection — docTR adds a two-stage detection and recognition pipeline plus layout analysis for regions such as tables, figures, and headers.

    7.5 Free plan Visit site
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    EasyOCR

    Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1

    Python image OCR with coordinates and confidence — EasyOCR returns detected text with bounding boxes and confidence values, and can read compatible languages together.

    7.4 Free plan Visit site
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    OCRmyPDF

    Free plan APILinuxMac+2

    Adding searchable text to scanned PDFs — OCRmyPDF creates searchable PDF files and uses Tesseract as its recognition engine, while adding PDF processing and deskew options.

    7.2 Free plan Visit site
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    PaddleOCR

    Free plan AndroidiPhone

    Multilingual document parsing and handwriting — PaddleOCR adds handwriting recognition and a free API for up to 20,000 pages of document parsing per day.

    6.9 Free plan Visit site
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    Surya

    Free plan APILinuxMac+1

    Structured layout, reading order, and table output — Surya returns structured page blocks with layout, reading order, table geometry, and inline equation recognition.

    7.0 Open source Visit site
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    Veryfi Invoices OCR API

    Free plan AndroidAPIExtension+3

    Structured invoice extraction and fraud checks — Veryfi extracts invoice fields into structured JSON and adds checks for altered or duplicate invoices.

    6.9 Free plan · paid from $500/mo Visit site
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    Amazon Textract AnalyzeExpense

    Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb
    7.6 From $0.01 Visit site
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    API4AI OCR

    Free plan API
    7.2 Visit site
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    Calamari OCR

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted
    7.1 Open source Visit site
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    Mistral OCR

    Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb
    7.1 Free plan · paid from $4 Visit site
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    Kraken

    Free plan APILinuxMac
    6.9 Free plan Visit site
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    ocrs

    Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+2
    6.9 Open source Visit site
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    Anyline OCR SDK

    Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+2
    6.6 Pricing on request · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Apryse OCR SDK

    Free trial LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1
    6.5 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Asprise OCR SDK

    Free trial LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1
    6.5 Visit site
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    Dynamsoft Label Recognizer

    Free trial AndroidiPhoneLinux+4
    6.4 From $1,249/yr · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Handwriting OCR

    Free trial APIExtensionWeb
    6.2 From $15 Visit site
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    Microblink BlinkID

    Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+5
    6.2 Pricing on request · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Regula Document Reader SDK

    Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+4
    6.0 Pricing on request Visit site
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    Mindee Invoice OCR

    Free trial APIWeb
    5.9 From €44/mo (annual) · 14-day trial Visit site
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    Scanbot Data Capture SDK

    Free trial AndroidiPhoneLinux+2
    5.9 Pricing on request · 7-day trial Visit site
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    PDF.co

    by Artifex Software, Inc.
    Free trial APIWeb
    5.7 From $8.99/mo (annual) · 30-day trial Visit site
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    ReceiptOCR

    Free trial APIWeb
    5.7 From $49/mo Visit site

Those limits can matter if you need a ready-to-use service, document structure, or invoice fields rather than a general OCR engine. Alternatives here include online OCR with direct PDF parsing, libraries that detect layout regions, tools that add searchable text to PDFs, and APIs that return structured invoice data. Before switching, weigh whether you need to process PDFs directly, extract tables or reading order, work with handwriting, or keep an open-source engine in your own deployment. Consider language coverage, output format, and pricing too: several options are free, while OCR.space and Veryfi also offer paid plans.

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