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OCRmyPDF vs Smart Scanner

A side-by-side look at OCRmyPDF and Smart Scanner. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

OCRmyPDF

OCRmyPDF

Office & Productivity

OCRmyPDF is an open source command-line program and Python library that applies optical character recognition (OCR) to PDF documents. It takes an existing PDF as input and generates a new searchable PDF as output with an invisible text layer over images.

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Smart Scanner

Smart Scanner

Office & Productivity

Smart Scanner is an intelligent document scanning software that can automatically detect and crop documents in a scan. It has optical character recognition to extract text and makes scanned documents searchable. Useful for individuals or offices that need to digitize paper documents.

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