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Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to S3-OCR: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket

I’ve released s3-ocr, a new tool that runs Amazon’s Textract OCR text extraction against PDF files in an S3 bucket, then writes the resulting text out to a SQLite database …

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. S3-OCR: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    📄 PDF/IMG ->.MD/JSON Document OCR API for PaddleOCR and GLMOCR. Self-hostable. - majcheradam/ocrbase

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fast and efficient text recognition from any image and PDF

    2019 · apps.microsoft.com · its alternatives →

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    Effortless image to text conversion for Mac

    2024 · getsnipit.com · its alternatives →

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    Download Copyfish for Firefox. Do you need to extract text from images, videos or PDF? If yes, then the Copyfish free OCR software is for you. Until now, your only option was to retype the text. Copyfish is so much faster and more fun. It can do desktop screenshots and OCR, too.

    2017 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →

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    Textify▲202

    macOS app to recognize text from your images/docs with OCR

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    PDFify▲230

    Free macOS text recognition, PDF composition & compression

    2018 · pdfify.app · its alternatives →

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    Scan and extract text from images on iPhone, iPad & Mac

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Get any text on your screen into your clipboard. Contribute to schappim/macOCR development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Koncile ▲251

    Customisable OCR for all your data extraction needs

    2024 · koncile.ai · its alternatives →

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    I've developed a Python API service that uses GPT-4o for OCR on PDFs. It features parallel processing and batch handling for improved performance. Not only does it convert PDF to markdown, but it also describes the images within the PDF using captions like `[Image: This picture shows 4 people waving]`. In testing with NASA's Apollo 17 flight documents, it successfully converted complex, multi-oriented pages into well-structured Markdown. The project is open-source and available on GitHub. Feedback is welcome.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    OCR Wiz▲119

    Accurately extract text from images (including handwriting)

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Textractor: transcripcion, diarizacion de hablantes y documentos con IA, procesados localmente en tu PC Windows.

    2020 · textractor.app · its alternatives →

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    OCR Software & API for realtime data extraction from Invoice

    2023 · mastersindia.co · its alternatives →

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    OCR that checks its own answers, as an app or an API

    Aug 2026 · space-ocr.com · its alternatives →

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    Quickly extract text from images & PDFs with Python OCR

    2025 · mjpourk.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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    Extract text from images and PDFs on the cloud

    2019 · agenty.com · its alternatives →

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    Docparser helps you extract important data from Word, PDF, CSV, XLS, TXT, XML, and image files. Send to Excel, Google Sheets, and 100s of apps.

    2016 · docparser.com · its alternatives →

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    Privacy-first OCR and invoice extraction for PDFs

    Jul 2026 · pdfocrhub.com · its alternatives →

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    Extracts text from image, ppt's and pdf's

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    I've been disappointed by the very poor quality of results that I generally get when trying to run OCR on older scanned documents, especially ones that are typewritten or otherwise have unusual or irregular typography. I recently had the idea of using Llama2 to use common sense reasoning and subject level expertise to correct transcription errors in a "smart" way-- basically doing what a human proofreader who is familiar with the topic might do. I came up with the linked script that takes a PDF as input, runs Tesseract on it to get an initial text extraction, and then feeds this…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Precise document extraction for your agents — zero retention

    Apr 2026 · canonizr.com · its alternatives →

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    MyFreeOcr – Best Online Ocr tool that allows you to convert your PDF, PNG, JPG images into text. Supporting multiple languages.

    2022 · myfreeocr.com · its alternatives →

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    OCR AI▲10

    Automatic document validation and comparison with OCR and AI

    2025 · aiocr.org · its alternatives →

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