What is SimpleOCR?
SimpleOCR is an easy-to-use open source optical character recognition (OCR) software for Windows, Linux and macOS. It allows you to convert scanned paper documents, PDF files or images captured by a digital camera into editable text documents.
With its simple and intuitive graphical user interface, SimpleOCR makes OCR processes extremely easy even for novice users. You just need to open the application, load your image or scanned document, review the recognized text if needed, edit incorrectly converted text segments and export the end results into common file formats like DOC, DOCX, ODT, PDF and more.
Compared to advanced OCR tools, SimpleOCR comes with basic features but it's totally free and open source. The software recognizes texts in over 100 languages with their native scripts and alphabets including mixed-language documents. It can handle documents with simple layouts very well and performs decently with complex layouts.
If you occasionally need to convert a few scanned pages or images into text, SimpleOCR is a great free alternative you can rely on. It makes OCR simple for both home and office use.
Adobe Acrobat DC, CamScanner, ABBYY FineReader PDF, Microsoft Lens, CopyFish, OneNote Online, OSS Document Scanner, GImageReader, Adobe Scan, Tesseract, OpenScan, Dynamsoft Document Capture, Novadys OCR Web Service are some alternatives to SimpleOCR.