This software is recommended for individuals who need to digitize printed documents, researchers handling archival material, students who want to convert notes into editable text, and anyone looking for a free and open-source solution for OCR.
Tesseract - Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems
Prizmo - Prizmo is a scanning application for Mac with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in over 40 languages with powerful editing capability, text-to-speech, and iCloud support.
ABBYY FineReader - ABBYY's latest PDF editor software, FineReader 16 you can easily convert files like PDF to Excel, PDF to Word, edit, share, collaborate & more with this PDF editor!
Onlineocr.net - Free Online OCR service allows you to convert PDF document to MS Word file, scanned images to editable text formats and extract text from JPEG/TIFF/BMP files
Google Lens - Discover information about something by taking a photo
PDFify - PDF creation with text recognition and scanner support. Features email and webpage import to PDF.