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Alternatives to OCR.so

50 Reading apps to use instead, best rated first.

Top picks

  1. 1

    Are.na

    Collect & connect ideas

    4.8Free / Premium

    Launch
  2. 2

    Substack

    A new economic engine for writing

    4.5Free

    Launch
  3. 3

    Linkwarden

    Bookmarks, Evolved

    Free triallinkwarden.app

    Launch
  4. 4

    Wallabag

    A self hostable application for saving web pages

    Freewallabag.org

    Launch
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    BookWyrm

    Join a federated social reading platform where you can track books

    joinbookwyrm.com

    Launch
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    Boring Report

    News by AI - Information Without the Noise

    boringreport.org

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Why choose an alternative

  • They cost nothing

    Substack, Wallabag and Artemis are free. OCR.so is paid.

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  • The code is open

    8 of these are open source.

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  • You can host it yourself

    Linkwarden and Wallabag are built to run on your own server.

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  • Your data stays yours

    4 of these are built around privacy.

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About OCR.so

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OCR.so

Turn scanned PDFs and images into clean Markdown—from English books

Turn scanned PDFs and images into clean Markdown—from English books to Bengali records. Pay only for the pages you process.

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Price
Paid
Category
Reading
Website
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