Best alternatives to Fast OCR (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Fast OCR, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.
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Fast OCR alternatives, compared
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Online OCR
Use online ocr to extract text from images; Instant ocr character recognition online allows extract text from pdf, jpeg, png, photo.
≈2K users4.1★ from 14 ratingsUpdated 6 months ago6 permissions- About 5.0× fewer users than Fast OCR
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (6 vs 2)
- Listed under Tools
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PDF to OCR
Convert PDF to OCR for free.
≈10K users3.1★ from 28 ratingsNot updated for 3+ years1 permissions- A similar number of users to Fast OCR
- Rated 0.5 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 2)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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PDF to OCR for Google Chrome™
Convert PDF to OCR for free.
≈6K users2.2★ from 25 ratingsNot updated for 4+ years1 permissions- About 1.7× fewer users than Fast OCR
- Rated 1.4 stars lower
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 2)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Copyfish 🐟 Free OCR Software
Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.
≈600K users4.0★ from 1K ratingsUpdated 6 weeks ago9 permissions- About 60× more users than Fast OCR
- Rated 0.3 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (9 vs 2)
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OCR Editor - Text from Image
Online OCR editor to extract the text from images, pdf and word files.
≈40K users4.0★ from 114 ratingsUpdated 22 months ago7 permissions- About 4.0× more users than Fast OCR
- Rated 0.4 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (7 vs 2)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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PDF to OCR Text Converter
With OCR support convert image based PDF documents to text files.
≈6K users3.1★ from 19 ratingsNot updated for 3+ years2 permissions- About 1.7× fewer users than Fast OCR
- Updated less recently
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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OCR Scanner Extension
An optical character recognition (OCR) extension to extract text from snapshot
≈4K users3.6★ from 46 ratingsUpdated 8 weeks ago2 permissions- About 2.5× fewer users than Fast OCR
- Updated more recently
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VNConvert - AI convert PDF & Images to Word
Convert PDF and images to Word (DOCX) using AI. Keep formatting and layout, enhance text accuracy, and support OCR and scanned…
≈1K users5.0★ from 11 ratingsUpdated 11 months ago6 permissions- About 10× fewer users than Fast OCR
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (6 vs 2)
- Listed under Tools
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WPS PDF - Read, Edit, Fill, Convert, and AI Chat PDF with Ease
Easy-to-use PDF tools to view, edit, convert, fill, e-sign PDF files, and more in your browser.
≈6M users4.5★ from 194 ratingsUpdated 2 months ago11 permissions- About 600× more users than Fast OCR
- Rated 0.8 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (11 vs 2)
- Listed under Tools
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MConverter - File Converter: AVIF, JXL, WebP
Save AVIF, WebP as JPG or PNG. Convert images, video, audio from webpages. Create animated GIF from video. Compress PDF files.
≈10K users3.9★ from 106 ratingsUpdated 9 months ago5 permissions- A similar number of users to Fast OCR
- Rated 0.2 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (5 vs 2)
- Listed under Tools
Fast OCR alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Fast OCR?
By users, the most popular alternative is WPS PDF - Read, Edit, Fill, Convert, and AI Chat PDF with Ease with ≈6M users and a 4.5-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Online OCR.
Which Fast OCR alternative has the best rating?
WPS PDF - Read, Edit, Fill, Convert, and AI Chat PDF with Ease has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.5 out of 5 from 194 ratings.
Is there a Fast OCR alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
PDF to OCR asks for 1 permissions, against 2 for Fast OCR.
How many alternatives to Fast OCR are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to Fast OCR on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.