Compare the Top OCR Software in Africa as of January 2026

What is OCR Software in Africa?

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software is software that converts different types of documents—such as scanned paper documents, PDFs, or images—into editable and searchable text. OCR software analyzes the shapes of characters in the document and translates them into machine-readable data. This technology is particularly useful for digitizing printed documents, allowing businesses and individuals to archive, edit, and search through physical content more efficiently. By using OCR software, organizations can save time, reduce errors, and improve document accessibility while making information easier to manipulate and manage. Compare and read user reviews of the best OCR software in Africa currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Nutrient SDK
    Nutrient is the comprehensive solution for all your PDF needs, offering tools that effortlessly integrate and operate PDF functionality across any platform. 1. SDK PRODUCTS Integrate robust PDF functionality into iOS, Android, Windows, web (JavaScript), or any cross-platform technology, providing capabilities such as PDF viewing, markup, collaboration, and more. 2. LIBRARIES Utilize our potent .NET and Java libraries to boost your backend applications with batch processing of redactions and PDF forms, OCR’d scanned text, and editing of PDF documents, directly from your application server. 3. PROCESSOR Our dynamic PDF microservice, Processor, enables swift generation of PDFs from HTML, including HTML forms, along with Office-to-PDF conversions, OCR, redaction, and XFDF merging and exporting. 4. PDF API Use hosted PDF API to generate, convert, and modify PDF documents in your workflows. We manage the development and server administration, letting you focus on what you do best.
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    PackageX OCR Scanning
    PackageX OCR API converts any smartphone into a powerful universal label scanner that reads every bit of text on the label, including barcodes and QR codes. Our state-of-the-art OCR technology uses robust deep learning models and proprietary algorithms to extract information from package labels. Our OCR API is trained based on information from over 10 million labels, enabling over 95% scan accuracy -- the best in the market. Our technology scans in low-light conditions, reads at any angle, and works with damaged labels. Build your custom OCR scanner app and remove pen-and-paper inefficiencies. Easily extract information from both printed text and handwritten labels with our OCR scanner. Our OCR technology is trained on multilingual label data extracted from over 40 countries. Detect & extract information from any barcode or QR code.
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    onPhase

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    onPhase

    Attain 99.99% accuracy with our AI-driven and human-assisted OCR technology that reads header, line-item, and handwritten notes. That means less time spent manually keying in data.
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    FormKiQ

    FormKiQ

    FormKiQ

    FormKiQ is a new way to manage documents in the cloud, using a powerful Open Source API paired with a dynamic ReactJS web client, both of which you can build on and extend. You can add FormKiQ to an existing application or product or install and run it as a full-featured electronic document management system on its own, with as little or as much customization as you need. NOTE: along with Pro and Enterprise versions, there is a free open-core version, FormKiQ Core, that provides the essential features of a document management system. What makes FormKiQ stand out from other document management software is that it is highly flexible and customizable, due to being designed and built with API-First principles and using Amazon Web Services (AWS). This allows a level of customization and flexibility that is far beyond what other electronic document management systems can offer, and that's a good reason why tech-oriented companies across a wide range of industries are choosing FormKiQ.
    Starting Price: $1,299 per month
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    DigiParser

    DigiParser

    DigiParser

    DigiParser is a document workflow automation platform that simplifies data extraction from documents like invoices, contracts, forms, resumes, and receipts. It uses advanced OCR and machine learning to extract, validate, and process data, converting documents into structured JSON or CSV formats. Users can create custom parsers for their documents, automate workflows, and integrate the extracted data into tools like Zapier, QuickBooks, Xero, Salesforce, Google Sheets, etc. DigiParser supports team collaboration with flexible billing options, allowing multiple team members to work on different parsers. With features like schema customization, review stages, and workflow automation, it ensures high accuracy in data extraction while saving time and reducing manual work.
    Starting Price: $29/month
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    Parseur

    Parseur

    Parseur Pte. Ltd.

    Parseur is an email parser and document processing automation software that automatically extracts data from emails, PDFs, CSVs or Excels and sends it to any app, spreadsheet or database. Parseur saves you hundreds hours of manual data entry and lets you automate your business. Parseur works by creating a template based on a sample email, and highlighting portions of text to capture. After generating a template, Parseur will automatically extract the data from every similar email. The best feature about Parseur is that if you have more than one template, Parseur will automatically pick the right one for you so you can consolidate data extraction from many different providers automatically. Parseur comes loaded with ready made templates for many industries including food orders (Grubhub, DoorDash), Google Alerts, real estate leads (Zillow, Apartments.com), Job applications (LinkedIn), Bookings (Airbnb) and many more!
    Starting Price: $99 / month
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    Klippa DocHorizon

    Klippa DocHorizon

    Klippa App B.V

    Unlock cost savings with Klippa DocHorizon, your intelligent solution for document processing. Experience seamless automation with cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Klippa DocHorizon empowers you to automate all your document-related tasks effortlessly. Our AI-driven intelligent document processing platform provides versatile modules available through API and SDK integrations. Choose from ready-made document processing workflows or create a custom flow tailored to your needs in just a few simple steps. Design your own workflow by combining various modules to control how documents are input, processed, and delivered in your preferred output format. With Klippa DocHorizon, document automation has never been more flexible or efficient.
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    Affinda Invoice Extractor
    Affinda provides AI-powered document automation solutions that combine the adaptability of human understanding with the precision of computer accuracy to streamline document processing tasks. Affinda’s Invoice Extractor lets you easily extract data from even the most complex invoices. Quickly and successfully process batch of invoices in PDFs, DOC, PNG, and JPG. Affinda Invoice Extractor recognises 50+ fields including line-item detail to allow accounts payable departments to streamline their processes. Companies switch to Affinda because of our ability to extract data from even the most difficult invoices, thereby freeing up staff to focus on higher-value activities. The Affinda Invoice Extractor is powered by our AI Engine, VEGA. It uses innovations in NLP (Natural Language Processing), Transfer Learning and Computer Vision so it can understand documents like a human. VEGA constantly self-learns and continues to improve over time.
    Starting Price: $300
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    elDoc

    elDoc

    DMS Solutions

    elDoc - Intelligent Integrated Platform, enterprise level solution for intelligent document processing and end-to-end document workflow automation delivering true automation values. elDoc - is an out-of-the box solution designed to intelligently understand and process data of different type. elDoc enables business to intelligently digitize data (by reading, locating, capturing, recognizing and converting unstructured data to structured format, processing the data from end-to-end perspective). elDoc is not just Intelligent OCR, it is fully Integrated Intelligent Automated Platform for end-to-end Document Workflow Automation and Document Understanding powered with cognitive technologies and robust Security Framework. elDoc will not limit your business by Total Page Count / number of documents to be processed through the system. elDoc provides unlimited document volume processing capabilities for your business to quickly scale up and achieve the greatest automation benefits.
    Starting Price: $80 per user per year
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    DocsCorp

    DocsCorp

    DocsCorp

    Document management professionals turn to DocsCorp when they are looking for easy-to-use software that empowers them to work safer and smarter. We are a global brand with more than 500,000 users in over 65 countries. Our product portfolio is a list of must-have technologies that include document creation, email recipient checking, metadata cleaning, document comparison, PDF creation, and image file conversion to PDF, which can be accessed on the desktop, server or cloud. Our products integrate out-of-the-box with leading enterprise content management systems to streamline processes and to drive business efficiency. We offer organizations a combination of on-premises and cloud integrations. We work with industries that are document-centric to help them manage their most critical asset - documents. This includes Government Departments, Legal Services, Financial Services, and Technology companies.
    Starting Price: $49.50/user
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    Ephesoft

    Ephesoft

    Ephesoft

    Ephesoft provides intelligent document processing solutions with industry-leading technology to help enterprises maximize their productivity. Using AI and patented machine learning technology, Ephesoft’s platform captures data from documents, enriches it with context and amplifies the power of that data, adding intelligence to accelerate any business process and drive successful digital transformation. Thousands of customers worldwide use Ephesoft to save costs, improve accuracy, and fuel their journey towards autonomous enterprise. Ephesoft is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., with regional offices throughout the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Ephesoft Transact is an enterprise capture and data extraction automation platform, in the cloud, hybrid or on-premises, that automates any content-based business process and makes meaning out of unstructured data for decision-makers worldwide.
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    Veryfi OCR API & Mobile SDK
    Veryfi OCR API extracts, categorizes, and enriches all the details from unstructured consumer purchase receipts, invoices, and bills down to line items (SKU-level purchase data) at scale, without the use of traditional limitations like templates or humans-in-the-loop. Veryfi technology is TurnKey: ready to use out-of-the-box. This means no training required, no humans in the loop, and no templates. All documents are processed in real-time using Veryfis pre-trained machine models to provide instant time to value. Veryfi's mission is to free humanity from manual back-office labor.
    Starting Price: 8c /receipt & 16c /invoices
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    Rossum

    Rossum

    Rossum

    Rossum is an AI-based cloud document gateway for automated business communication. Rossum solves four key steps in document-based processes at once: receiving documents across multiple channels, automated understanding, two-way communication to resolve exceptions, and acting on the data using in-depth integrations. In typical real-world scenarios, Rossum’s proprietary AI engine outranks narrow data extraction solutions in accuracy. Meanwhile, Rossum’s platform automates the document-based communication process end-to-end. Rossum’s goal for every use case is at minimum a 90% document processing speed increase. Trusted by: Pepsico, Veolia, Siemens, Cushman & Wakefield, and other companies that prefer to build rather than type.
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    TAS Insight Engine
    Discovering, extracting, retrieving and finding the value in your enterprise data is all about getting insights. TAS Insight Engine provides you all the essential insights leading you to the right business decision. Getting insight means a kind of information extraction out of enterprise data, with the aim of supporting the business decision making. It is obvious why getting insight plays a major role nowadays, since understanding your data and obtaining results and answers are essential to face the challenges of today’s business world. In all areas or sectors, always. To make this possible, TAS Insight Engine combines the latest achievements as benefits of text analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML).
    Starting Price: €550 EUR / month / user
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    iText

    iText

    Apryse

    Now part of the Apryse family, iText is one of the best-documented and most versatile PDF SDKs in the world. The open-source iText Core library features a powerful layout engine and intuitive high-level APIs for document creation and manipulation, digital signing and validation, and much more. It has built-in support for PDF 2.0, all variants of PDF/A and PDF/UA, FIPS-140-2 and the very latest ISO standards for digital signatures and encryption. You can extend iText's capabilities even further, with add-ons for comprehensive HTML/XML and CSS templating, global language and writing systems, secure document redaction, OCR, document optimization, and working with dynamic XFA. iText Core is free to use under the AGPLv3 license, while a commercial license releases you from the AGPL terms and gives you professional support and maintenance. Visit the iText website to try the entire iText Suite free for 30 days, while keeping your IP safe under iText's commercial license terms.
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    OCR Gateway

    OCR Gateway

    OCR Gateway

    OCR Gateway is the most accurate OCR tool that helps you to optimize document workflows. With OCR Gateway you can extract data from anywhere, build powerful workflows and collaborate with your teammates. Forget manual data entry and focus on what really matters.
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