Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to You can now cut and paste from scanned documents in Firefox
I just realized you can now open a PDF document in Firefox and select text directly from scanned images embedded in the document (so basically transparently reliable doing OCR). It is also surprisingly reliable, only sometimes mistaking a "oh" for a "zero" in a long string of numbers. I neither know when this was introduced nor who added this feature, but from the bottom of my heart: thank you, thank you, thank you, you have made my daily life a lot easier. I also haven't really explored the limits of the feature and under what conditions it starts failing, but: in my daily workflow so far,…
Firefox now includes optical character recognition (OCR) functionality that allows users to select and copy text directly from scanned images within PDF documents. The feature is designed for anyone who regularly works… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. You can now cut and paste from scanned documents in Firefox launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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Hi, OP here. A friend was involved in a custody battle and was afraid his ex was going to leak all of his discovery documents on the internet and he asked if there was something I could do to make it harder for bots/crawlers to find sensitive information. Originally I was going to turn all of his docs to image based PDFs, but those get large fast and are easy to OCR. So I found a post musing about altering fonts/glyphs so that it looks like english, but the actual character being seen by the pdf reader is a non-english character. As such, when you try to OCR these files, it doesn't…
2022 · humaneyesonly.com · its alternatives →
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Implement scanyourpdf.com in JavaScript. No backend servers needed.
2022 · lookscanned.io · its alternatives →
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Adobe Scan▲498Adobe's free scan app with text recognition superpowers
2017 · adobe.com · its alternatives →
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This started out as a weekend hack with gpt-4-mini, using the very basic strategy of "just ask the ai to ocr the document". But this turned out to be better performing than our current implementation of Unstructured/Textract. At pretty much the same cost. I've tested almost every variant of document OCR over the past year, especially trying things like table / chart extraction. I've found the rules based extraction has always been lacking. Documents are meant to be a visual representation after all. With weird layouts, tables, charts, etc. Using a vision model just make sense! In…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PDFify▲230Free macOS text recognition, PDF composition & compression
2018 · pdfify.app · 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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Textify▲202macOS app to recognize text from your images/docs with OCR
2020 · apps.apple.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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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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Tidy▲98Spotlight returns nothing for words you know are in a scanned document. It is not a bug: a scan has no text layer, so there is nothing to index. How to check, and three ways to make those documents searchable on a Mac.
Jul 2026 · tidymacapp.com · its alternatives →
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TextSnatcher▲64How to copy text from images, answer is TextSnatcher
2022 · textsnatcher.rf.gd · its alternatives →
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With OCR (optical character recognition)
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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I had to do a bit of web-workflow documentation and found the process of gathering screenshots, placing them correctly into a document, and creating captions extremely tiring. I figured it’ll be easy to automate and also a great opportunity to get to know the Browser API, and here we are with the first release of the extension. It’s extremely easy to use but barebones which I plan to change in the near future, so any feedback will be appreciated. I want to keep the docs generation process completely offline to avoid dealing with server costs and GDPR stuff which poses a lot of challenges…
2022 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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Free online OCR editor to edit scanned PDF text in browser
Aug 2026 · editscannedpdf.com · its alternatives →
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End-to-end document automation platform with AI-powered OCR for 40+ document types. Automate invoice processing, receipt parsing, and more with human-in-the-loop review and ERP integrations.
2024 · visionparser.com · its alternatives →
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OCR.chat▲12Free online OCR. Convert images and PDFs to editable text, tables and LaTeX in 100+ languages, then chat with your document and get answers cited to the page. No signup to try.
Jun 2026 · ocr.chat · its alternatives →
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FiPDF — Convert Images to PDF with OCR, No Upload Needed
2025 · fipdf.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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