Impressive OCR pricing
Free editionTurn PDFs and scanned documents into searchable PDFs, editable text, Word, Excel, Markdown, JSON and more — without uploading your files to a cloud service.
Personal
For private, non-commercial use on up to three machines.
- Machines
- 3
- Use
- Private only
- Licensed under
- AGPL-3.0
- Both engines, all 109 languages, every output format
- Quick Mode and watched-folder pipelines
- Searchable PDF, Markdown, JSON, text, Word, Excel, HTML
- Local processing — no cloud account, no API key, no upload
- Use on up to three machines
AGPL-3.0. Private, non-commercial use.
Commercial
For any use in or for a business. The same software, different terms.
- Use
- Commercial
- Term
- Perpetual
- Updates
- 1 year included
- The same complete software — nothing is held back for the paid tier
- Licensed for use in or for a company or other organisation
- Desktop application, server edition and automated pipelines
- No per-page, per-document or per-seat metering
- Perpetual use of the version you bought
- Replaces the AGPL's requirements with commercial terms
Perpetual commercial license, as an alternative to the AGPL.
Need more servers, several products, or an invoice? Ask for a quote. Lost a license key? Retrieve it here.
What a license includes
- The license never expires
- A perpetual license keeps working indefinitely on the version you are entitled to. If you never pay us again, your servers keep running.
- One year of updates and support
- Every commercial tier includes twelve months of updates from the date of purchase. After that the software carries on working — you simply stop receiving new versions.
- Updates can be renewed
- If you want to keep receiving new versions after the first year, an update subscription extends the window. It is optional: skip it and you keep the version you have.
- licenses are node-locked
- Each license is bound to a machine ID. Transfers are permitted within the limits in the agreement, for hardware replacement and migrations.
- Bought the wrong thing?
- There is a 14-day refund window if the software does not work as described and support cannot resolve it. Since there is a free edition to evaluate with, please try that first.
Full text:commercial license·community license·refund policy
Questions people ask before buying
Can I use the free edition of Impressive OCR at work?
No. Free under the AGPL-3.0 for private, non-commercial use, on up to three machines. "Non-commercial" is about who benefits, not who pays: a freelancer using it on a client project, or an employee using it on a work machine, both need a commercial license. Commercial licensing starts at €89.
Is Impressive OCR a subscription?
No. Every commercial license is perpetual — bought once, and the version you bought keeps working for as long as you use it. Twelve months of updates and support are included, and renewing that window is optional.
Does Impressive OCR send my data anywhere?
No. Impressive OCR runs on your own desktop or your own server, and the content it processes is not sent to us or to any cloud service for processing. There is no account to create and the application does not phone home.
Which operating systems does Impressive OCR run on?
Windows, macOS, Linux. Intel Macs are not supported — the recognition engine has no working x86-64 build for macOS, and shipping a universal binary would mean a second copy of the framework that could never run. On an Intel Mac, run the server edition on another machine and use Impressive OCR in the browser.
Can I get an invoice or pay by bank transfer?
Yes. Card checkout is self-service, and anything else — an invoice, a purchase order, a bank transfer, or more servers than a tier covers — goes through a quote. Email us and a person replies.
Quote requests
More servers than a tier covers, several products at once, or a purchase order rather than a card — email us and you will get a quote from a person. Get in touch.
Lost license keys
Keys are emailed at purchase. If one has gone missing you can retrieve it yourself with the address you bought with — no account needed. Retrieve a key ↗.
VAT and payment
Prices include VAT where it applies — a German buyer pays exactly the figure shown, of which 19% is VAT. A business can enter a VAT ID at checkout to have it deducted, and outside the EU no VAT is charged. Payment and invoicing are handled by FastSpring as merchant of record, so your invoice comes from them.
Try Impressive OCR on one machine and see.
The free edition is the same software, limited to personal use.