Free-tier AI OCR that batch-extracts editable text from images, with paid plans for larger volumes and formatted output.
Best Data Extraction & Scraping Tools of 2026
All 173 Data Extraction & Scraping tools that are actually alive — cross-checked against multiple directories, liveness-verified, and ranked by real traffic. Dead links and clones removed. Verified means we checked — not that someone paid.
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Free desktop and web PDF suite for editing, converting, OCR, and signing, with built-in AI chat and summarization.
Free-tier AI OCR converter that extracts text from images in 20+ languages, with cheap monthly plans for heavier use.
Online OCR tool that scans business cards and exports contacts to vCard, CSV or Excel, plus other converters.
Online OCR converter that extracts editable text from JPG, PNG and similar images, with free use plus credit-based paid tiers.
OCR and document-conversion tools that turn PDFs, images and handwriting (math, chemistry, tables) into editable text and Markdown.
Free AI OCR that extracts and copies text from images and handwriting, with low-cost monthly web and API plans.
Proxy network with residential/mobile/ISP/datacenter IPs plus SERP, scraper and unlocker APIs for large-scale web data collection.
AI OCR that extracts editable text from images in batches, with a free tier and cheap monthly, yearly or lifetime plans.
Credit-based scraping API that converts any URL or natural-language prompt into structured markdown, JSON, or crawl data.
Global residential proxy service for web data extraction and AI.
Swiftproxy sells large-scale residential and static proxy pools for web scraping, SEO tracking, and price monitoring.
Residential proxy provider with 100M+ IPs across 200+ countries for large-scale, compliant web scraping; usage-based pricing.
Web scraping API bundling SERP, e-commerce, and general site extraction with built-in proxy and browser handling.
Developer-focused OCR/document-extraction APIs and SDKs turning receipts, invoices and other documents into structured data.
Agentic document-extraction APIs that parse, split and extract structured, auditable data from complex real-world documents.
Proxy provider offering 80M+ residential IPs plus scraper and SERP APIs for web scraping and data collection.
OCR software that extracts data from bank, brokerage, and credit-card statements, invoices, and receipts into Excel, QuickBooks, or Xero.
Data platform giving one subscription access to 100+ data providers for enrichment, scraping and APIs via spreadsheet, API or MCP.
AI form filler that completes PDF and Word forms in under a minute by extracting data from your documents, emails and profiles.
Document-AI platform that extracts and validates structured data from varied documents, configured in plain language.
AI document data-extraction API that pulls structured data from invoices, receipts, IDs and other documents into JSON.
Unified scraping API for pulling transcripts, stats, comments and profiles from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X and LinkedIn.
Converts PDFs, Office files and web pages into clean Markdown or structured JSON for LLM and RAG pipelines, via dashboard or API.
Data Extraction & Scraping tools compared
| Tool | Best for | Free tier | Price | Monthly visits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image to Text Converter | Free-tier AI OCR that batch-extracts editable text from images, with paid plans for larger volumes and formatted output. | Yes | $8/mo | 5.8M |
| PDFgear | Free desktop and web PDF suite for editing, converting, OCR, and signing, with built-in AI chat and summarization. | Yes | Free | 3.0M |
| Image to Text Converter IO | Free-tier AI OCR converter that extracts text from images in 20+ languages, with cheap monthly plans for heavier use. | Yes | $6/mo | 941K |
| Business Card Scanner | Online OCR tool that scans business cards and exports contacts to vCard, CSV or Excel, plus other converters. | Yes | $7.99/mo | 726K |
| JPG to Text | Online OCR converter that extracts editable text from JPG, PNG and similar images, with free use plus credit-based paid tiers. | Yes | $4.5/mo | 496K |