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Compare the Top OCR Software of 2021

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OCR Software Guide

What is OCR Software?

OCR software, short for Optical Character Recognition, enables the capture, scanning and processing of forms and documents in order to extract actionable data that needs to be processed. Compare the best OCR software currently available using the table below.

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    FileCenter

    FileCenter

    FileCenter

    FileCenter is your fastest path to organized documents. It's easy to install, learn, and use. FileCenter DMS combines easy scanning and file organization with powerful PDF creation and editing. It also integrates with most Cloud services and the Windows programs you already use. FileCenter AUTOMATE converts documents into searchable PDFs with its powerful OCR and then automatically names and routes them. FileCenter RECEIPTS is the best way to manage your receipts, track your expenses, and create reports to ensure accurate reimbursements. FileCenter is perfect for offices of all sizes. It runs on your Windows PC and uses the Windows file system, NOT complex databases. Feature-for-feature, FileCenter delivers at a price the competition can't touch. Start your free trial today! Call 801-722-7098.
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    Starting Price: $99.95 (one-time/user)
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    PSIcapture

    PSIcapture

    PSIGEN Software, Inc.

    Turn documents, databases and email data into actionable information. PSIcapture does much more than just convert documents from paper to digital format. It’s advanced, automated document capture and data extraction designed to meet all the needs of any organization. Organizations use an array of scanning devices and document management applications to meet their needs, which are subject to change over time. PSIcapture is unique in its ability to integrate with any scanning device and route information to more than 60 ECM systems. No matter the size and scope of an organization, whether it has 10 employees in one office or 500 scattered across several locations, PSIcapture will make document processes easy and efficient. Competitively priced, truly scalable and uniquely versatile, PSIcapture is the ideal document capture solution. A single capture platform designed to meet all the needs of an organization.
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    ThinkAutomation

    ThinkAutomation

    Parker Software

    Develop the automations that work for you. With ThinkAutomation, you get an open-ended studio to build any and every automated workflow you could ever need. All without volume limitations, and all without paying per process, license or ‘robot’.
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    Starting Price: $1,299/Year
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    hyper Digital Asset Management Server

    hyper Digital Asset Management Server

    hyperCMS Content Management Solutions

    The hyper Content & Digital Asset Management Server helps organizations to have full control over all their digital assets, to automate processes and cut costs. Access all your rich rich content directly by conveniently integrating it into the creative workflow of internal/external teams and programs like Adobe CS, MS Office, and OpenOffice. Ensure process control with collaborative approval. Share the content directly on Social Media Networks. Create customized Brand Portals to promote and meassure the success of various rich content.
    Starting Price: $21.00/month for SaaS, $0 for the On-Premise Free Edition
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    Parseur

    Parseur

    Parseur Pte. Ltd.

    Parseur is an email parser and document processing automation software that automatically extracts data from emails, PDFs, CSVs or Excels and sends it to any app, spreadsheet or database. Parseur saves you hundreds hours of manual data entry and lets you automate your business. Parseur works by creating a template based on a sample email, and highlighting portions of text to capture. After generating a template, Parseur will automatically extract the data from every similar email. The best feature about Parseur is that if you have more than one template, Parseur will automatically pick the right one for you so you can consolidate data extraction from many different providers automatically. Parseur comes loaded with ready made templates for many industries including food orders (Grubhub, DoorDash), Google Alerts, real estate leads (Zillow, Apartments.com), Job applications (LinkedIn), Bookings (Airbnb) and many more!
    Starting Price: $59.00/month
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    Creativities.PDF

    Creativities.PDF

    Max Lock Softwareentwicklung

    Creativities.PDF is an all-in-one application for managing and converting PDF files. You can edit the structure of PDF documents, convert files to PDF format, split and merge PDF files, protect your documents or compress them. Also you are able to extract the images from PDF files, perform a ocr text recognition on PDF files and images.
    Starting Price: 19,95 €
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    TAS Insight Engine
    Discovering, extracting, retrieving and finding the value in your enterprise data is all about getting insights. TAS Insight Engine provides you all the essential insights leading you to the right business decision. Getting insight means a kind of information extraction out of enterprise data, with the aim of supporting the business decision making. It is obvious why getting insight plays a major role nowadays, since understanding your data and obtaining results and answers are essential to face the challenges of today’s business world. In all areas or sectors, always. To make this possible, TAS Insight Engine combines the latest achievements as benefits of text analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML).
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    Acrobat Reader DC
    View, sign, collaborate on, and annotate PDFs with our free Adobe Acrobat Reader. And to create, protect, convert, and edit PDFs, try out Acrobat Pro. Only with Adobe Acrobat Reader you can view, sign, collect and track feedback, and share PDFs for free. And when you want to do more, subscribe to Acrobat Pro DC. Then you can edit, export, and send PDFs for signatures. Do more than just open and view PDF files. It’s easy annotate documents and share them to collect and consolidate comments from multiple reviewers in a single shared online PDF. Work on documents anywhere using the Acrobat Reader mobile app. It’s packed with all the tools you need to convert, edit, and sign PDFs. You can use your device camera to capture a document, whiteboard, or receipt and save it as a PDF. Acrobat Reader DC is connected to Adobe Document Cloud, so you can work with your PDFs anywhere. You can even access and store files in Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, or Microsoft OneDrive.
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    Starting Price: $1.95 per month
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    Microsoft Office Lens
    Office Lens trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and docs readable. You can use Office Lens to convert images to PDF, Word and PowerPoint files, and you can even save images to OneNote or OneDrive. Office Lens is like having a scanner in your pocket. Like magic, it will digitize notes from whiteboards or blackboards. Always find important documents or business cards. Sketch your ideas and snap a picture for later. Don't lose receipts or stray sticky notes again!
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    ABBYY FineReader
    ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 for Windows empowers professionals to maximize efficiency in the digital workplace. Featuring ABBYY’s latest AI-based OCR technology, FineReader PDF makes it easier to digitize, retrieve, edit, protect, share, and collaborate on all kinds of documents in the same workflow. Accurately convert scanned paper documents, images and PDFs to Word, Excel, searchable PDF and other formats. Save time and effort by using and finalizing documents in an easy and productive way. Access and edit texts, tables, and the entire layout of your PDF without additional conversion steps. Compare Documents feature identifies changes between document versions in different file formats – e.g. a PDF of a scanned paper and its original Word version. Digitize, retrieve, edit, protect, share, and collaborate on all kinds of documents in one workflow. Edit digital and scanned PDFs with a newfound ease: correct whole sentences and paragraphs or even adjust the layout.
    Starting Price: $199 one-time fee
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    Veryfi OCR API & Mobile SDK
    Veryfi OCR API extracts, categorizes, and enriches all the details from unstructured consumer purchase receipts, invoices, and bills down to line items (SKU-level purchase data) at scale, without the use of traditional limitations like templates or humans-in-the-loop. Veryfi technology is TurnKey: ready to use out-of-the-box. This means no training required, no humans in the loop, and no templates. All documents are processed in real-time using Veryfis pre-trained machine models to provide instant time to value. Veryfi's mission is to free humanity from manual back-office labor.
    Starting Price: 8c /receipt & 16c /invoices
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    Scanbot SDK

    Scanbot SDK

    doo GmbH

    The Scanbot Software Development Kit (SDK) allows the fast and easy integration of scanning and data extraction functionalities into any mobile- or web application within a few days. Scanbot (doo GmbH) enables companies to digitize their workflows and business processes to significantly reduce costs while simultaneously increasing customer satisfaction utilizing mobile data capture. More than 200 companies across the globe put their trust in our innovative solutions using functionalities like QR- & barcode scanning, over document scanning, to data extraction (OCR). Requiring no internet connection or server-side processing, the Scanbot SDK is uniquely suited to be used for processing sensitive personal data, being 100% GDPR & CCPA compliant. Clients from a vast variety of industries, e.g. Aflac, KeepTruckin, DATEV, AXA, or Generali, benefit from features powered by Machine-Learning and Computer Vision in their apps.
    Starting Price: $20000 per year
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    elDoc

    elDoc

    DMS Solutions

    elDoc - Intelligent Integrated Platform, enterprise level solution for intelligent document processing and end-to-end document workflow automation delivering true automation values. elDoc - is an out-of-the box solution designed to intelligently understand and process data of different type. elDoc enables business to intelligently digitize data (by reading, locating, capturing, recognizing and converting unstructured data to structured format, processing the data from end-to-end perspective). elDoc is not just Intelligent OCR, it is fully Integrated Intelligent Automated Platform for end-to-end Document Workflow Automation and Document Understanding powered with cognitive technologies and robust Security Framework. elDoc will not limit your business by Total Page Count / number of documents to be processed through the system. elDoc provides unlimited document volume processing capabilities for your business to quickly scale up and achieve the greatest automation benefits.
    Starting Price: starting with $80.00/per year/user
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    WinAutomation

    WinAutomation

    Softomotive

    WinAutomation brings the benefits of Robotic Process Automation to your desktop. It offers the most powerful, robust and easy to use Windows-based software that allows you to automate routine and repetitive tasks. WinAutomation helps you reduce costs and improve overall speed and accuracy of business processes.
    Starting Price: $89/month/user
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    Maestro Server OCR

    Maestro Server OCR

    CVISION Technologies

    CVISION’s Maestro Server OCR has been engineered for automated, high-volume document scanning & OCR needs. Maestro converts paper and scanned documents into searchable PDF files. In addition, Maestro automates the OCR process by converting any document as it enters a watched folder according to configurable settings chosen by the user. Beyond OCR automation, Maestro incorporates unlimited multi-threading and batch OCR to accommodate high-volume scanning, up to billions of pages per year to make Maestro a true enterprise OCR software solution. Maestro Server OCR 8.0 has been released! This major update is designed to help organizations take control of their mountains of paper and scanned documents. Please join us for a special web session exploring our new enterprise server OCR capabilities in-depth.
    Starting Price: $360.00/one-time/user
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    GroupDocs.Total  Free Apps for Windows
    Free Document Manipulation Apps Suite for Windows. Perform easy document conversion, parsing, merging, comparing & signing. Support for more than fifty (50) file formats. Complete document automation offline on your own desktop. It provides documents merging support for Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, PDF and many other documents. It also facilitates users to compare a wide range of document for content as well as for style alterations. It has included complete support for viewing, adding, updating and cleaning metadata for widely used file formats. Moreover you can easily hide sensitive information (text or metadata) from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and several other documents types with ease. It has also provided advanced searching feature which allows performing index based text search in your documents. Features like page zooming, page layout settings, page rotation and many other are fully supported.
    Starting Price: FREE
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    Greenbox

    Greenbox

    Discus Business Solutions

    Greenbox is a remarkably unique document management system with an advanced integrated business process management system. It is a Document Management System that helps in storing, tracking, retrieving and managing documents while having centralized access. Anyone and everyone with permission can access a file irrespective of where they are. The system takes care of complete safety and confidentiality of the documents and is designed to simplify the otherwise complicated operations. Greenbox allows the user access to a variety of features like unlimited folders and subfolders, universal content search, Solr OCR/text search inside an image, document versioning and restoration, granular access control and advanced document control feature. Document approval workflow, smart handling of metadata, and an attractive price bracket are some of its most notable features.
    Starting Price: $9.00/month/user
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    Rossum

    Rossum

    Rossum

    Rossum is an AI-based cloud document gateway for automated business communication. Rossum solves four key steps in document-based processes at once: receiving documents across multiple channels, automated understanding, two-way communication to resolve exceptions, and acting on the data using in-depth integrations. In typical real-world scenarios, Rossum’s proprietary AI engine outranks narrow data extraction solutions in accuracy. Meanwhile, Rossum’s platform automates the document-based communication process end-to-end. Rossum’s goal for every use case is at minimum a 90% document processing speed increase. Trusted by: Pepsico, Veolia, Siemens, Cushman & Wakefield, and other companies that prefer to build rather than type.
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    DocsCorp

    DocsCorp

    DocsCorp

    Document management professionals turn to DocsCorp when they are looking for easy-to-use software that empowers them to work safer and smarter. We are a global brand with more than 500,000 users in over 65 countries. Our product portfolio is a list of must-have technologies that include document creation, email recipient checking, metadata cleaning, document comparison, PDF creation, and image file conversion to PDF, which can be accessed on the desktop, server or cloud. Our products integrate out-of-the-box with leading enterprise content management systems to streamline processes and to drive business efficiency. We offer organizations a combination of on-premises and cloud integrations. We work with industries that are document-centric to help them manage their most critical asset - documents. This includes Government Departments, Legal Services, Financial Services, and Technology companies.
    Starting Price: $49.50/user
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    Ephesoft Transact
    Ephesoft provides intelligent document processing solutions with industry-leading technology to help enterprises maximize their productivity. Using AI and patented machine learning technology, Ephesoft’s platform captures data from documents, enriches it with context and amplifies the power of that data, adding intelligence to accelerate any business process and drive successful digital transformation. Thousands of customers worldwide use Ephesoft to save costs, improve accuracy and fuel their journey towards the autonomous enterprise. Ephesoft is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., with regional offices throughout the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Ephesoft Transact is an enterprise capture and data extraction automation platform, in the cloud, hybrid or on-premises, that automates any content-based business process and makes meaning out of unstructured data for decision-makers worldwide.
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    Anyline

    Anyline

    Anyline

    We make data capture simple, giving you the power to read, interpret and process visual information on mobile devices, websites and embedded cameras. Thanks to our partnerships with some of the greatest minds in machine learning, we have created the market-leading character scanning solution. From our home base in Vienna, Austria and US headquarters in Boston, our growing and dynamic team is changing the way companies manage data. Scan Barcodes, Passports, ID Documents, Utility Meters, License Plates, Serial Numbers, Tire DOT numbers, Documents and much more - in seconds!
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    Readiris

    Readiris

    I.R.I.S. Group

    Discover Readiris 17, PDF and OCR publishing software (optical character recognition) for windows. Have you dreamt of an intelligent, unique and intuitive solution to manage your PDF’s and paper documents? You've found it. Readiris 17 for Windows allows you to aggregate and split, edit and annotate, protect and sign your PDF’s. It’s also a global solution to convert, edit and transform all your paper documents into a variety of digital formats, intuitively with a few clicks.
    Starting Price: $33.56/one-time
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    AIDA

    AIDA

    Technology & Cognition LAB

    AIDA simplifies the use of Artificial Intelligence to organize our life, private and working, starting from our documents. Receipts, bills, clinical exams, tickets and various bookings but also invoices, orders, contracts, various correspondence are recognized, made digital and the information extracted made available both in your Apps and in complex business systems. Learning is simple and automatic, requires no special intervention. Why not let yourself be pampered by your new personal assistant? AIDA, with its interface accessible from any browser and of immediate use, allows from the first day the extraction of data from your documents and their use where and in the way in which you are used to do so. Immediately after creating the AIDA account, you are ready to go. You can set your document types, their metadata, the way you want to use them and the desired output without limits. You can also speed up this phase by using our examples, or by editing them.
    Starting Price: $5.23 per month
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    Cognitive Workbench
    ExB offers an AI and ML Driven Cognitive Process Automation platform that allows insurance companies to convert any form of text into actionable information and insights for input management and process automation. Insurers can implement ready-to-use pre-trained policy management, claims management, text mining in reports, and invoice assessment modules, request us to train ad-hoc models for their unique business workflows, or directly utilize our Cognitive Workbench to independently create and train any sort of text mining and end-to-end input management models.
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    PDFpenPro

    PDFpenPro

    Smile Software

    Powerful PDF Editing On Your Mac. Add signatures, text, and images. Make changes and correct typos. OCR scanned docs. Fill out and create forms. Export to Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint. With PDFpenPro, you can add text and signatures, make corrections, OCR scanned docs and more, just like PDFpen. But PDFpenPro goes beyond, with more powerful features. Make a scanned form come alive with PDFpenPro! Build interactive forms with text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, interactive signature fields and submit buttons! Export your PDFs not just in .docx format for the Microsoft® Word users in your life, but also .xlsx for Excel, .pptx for PowerPoint, and PDF/A for archival PDFs. Whether it’s a single Web page or a whole site, make it into a PDF complete with clickable links. Now you can edit your PDFs wherever you are. Use iCloud or Dropbox for seamless editing with PDFpen for iPad & iPhone.
    Starting Price: $124.95 one-time fee
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