It’s time for OCR, we need its help now in Mac. If we want to digitize the paper document then we want to go for OCR software. It reduces the number of paper we need and if you want to create a paperless office then it is good choice. You can get this OCR for both paid and for free trail. And today in this post, i’m going to list both paid and free OCR that can match well for your MAC.

List of Free Apps:

1.Google Drive

Coming to paid apps, it has greatest advantage that you can demand for quality and you don’t need to compromise with the features provided by the free apps. And your requirement will be highly satisfied by the paid apps. now take a look at the list of paid OCR apps that can fit your requirements, ABBYY Finereader Pro for Mac ($99.99) – OS X 10.8 and higher version:

  • It is highly rated and specialized for Mac as it has 99.8 % accuracy.
  • Accuracy is excellent and it is one of the best in the market.
  • It converts the scan to lot of different formats including Epub, Excel, Powerpoint etc.
  • It is quite slow but the results are worth to wait.
  • But it only works on OS X10.6.

Prizmo ($24.99) OS X 10.10 and higher version:

  • It can be decent alternative for ABBYY Finereader Pro .
  • Recently Prizmo has been updated with the Yosmite Style interdface.
  • It requires OS X 10.10 or higher than that.
  • But scanning the document which is not in English is quite difficult although it supports multi language usage.
  • If you want to scan magazine articles, they should be more than 200 dpi.

OCRKit ($39.99) – OS X 10.0.6 or  higher version:

  • It is very effective tool for scanning needs.
  • The scanning capacity is highly good, no matter how damaged the document is.
  • You can drag the finished OCR document into Pages and make further editing.
  • It is very much cheaper than any other paid OCR apps and effective too.

Picatext ($3.99) – OS X 10.7 and higher version:

  • If you don’t wish to invest more money on apps then this is good solid choice.
  • You can also include text and text within images.
  • But it can handle only one page at a time.
  • It is best choice when you need an OCR app for occasional usage.
  • And for short document work it is very good choice.

PDFPen($74.99) – OS X 10.7 and higher version:

  • It is a PDF conversion tool and also offer very simple and effective OCR feature.
  • It has “Deskew” and “Adjust image” tool to straighten the images.
  • But it cannot handle the pages more than 20 pages.
  • It is extremely fast than other OCR software and we can regularly convert PDF documents.

DEVONthink Pro Office ($169.95) – OS X 10.6.8 and higher version:

  • It is a professional OCR solution aimed to company needs.
  • It will suit well for small businesses that don’t need many piles of paper.
  • Anything uploaded into this app is automatically scanned.
  • It is best option for business that needs to OCR thousands of documents.

Readiris Pro ($129.99) – OS X 10 and higher version:

  • It was first developed for Windows but now it is available for Mac too.
  • It can scan 130 different languages when the original document is clear.
  • It can convert scanned documents, pictures, images and PDF’s.
  • It is limited to 50 pages at once.
  • If you have text over a background then it is a little struggle to recognize those texts.

VueScan ($39.95) – OS X 10.5 and higher version

  • It can work virtually with all scanners.
  • It has basic OCR tool that can work with multiple languages.
  • It will not actually make the text scannable.
  • It will simply allow you to scan image with text in a page but we need dedicated OCR software.