No moat. Still in business.
Software directory for those who don’t want to rebuild, own the updates, the bugs, the support.
- hdoc
Generates searchable API docs from C++ code and Markdown pages, with optional hosting, for C++ teams.
Since 2021
Developer tools · Developers
- Shottr
A small Mac app for taking, marking up and measuring screenshots, with text recognition, built for designers and developers.
Free plan · Design and images · Individuals and families
- Reducto
An API that reads PDFs and scanned documents, including tables and complex layouts, and turns them into structured data for AI apps.
Since 2024
Pay as you go · Documents and e-signature · Developers
- Linkly AI
Indexes the documents, images and web clips on your computer so you and your AI assistants can search and read them.
Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- redirs
Point any domain at any URL with automatic HTTPS, path rules and hit analytics, no server to run.
Free plan · Website builders
- Ui.Vision
A browser extension and desktop app that records or builds reusable macros to automate web and desktop tasks.
Since 2016
Free plan · Automation and integrations
- Nyckel
An API that lets developers train custom classifiers and detectors for images and text from a few labelled examples.
Since 2022
Developer tools · Developers
- Xnapper
Mac screenshot tool that adds backgrounds, hides private details and pulls out text, for people sharing screenshots online.
Since 2024
Free · Design and images · Creators and writers
- Struxs
Lets you design a custom OCR or image extraction API from sample documents and deploy it as a hosted endpoint, paying per use.
Pay as you go · Developer tools · Developers
- PDF to Markdown
Turns PDFs, including scans, into Markdown in the browser and shows the original next to the output to check it.
Free plan · Documents and e-signature · Individuals and families
- OCR Buddy
Free Chrome extension that pulls text, code, math and tables from part of a page offline and saves pages as Markdown for LLMs.
Free · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- OpenParser
An API that turns PDFs and images into text and JSON fields and links each value back to its place on the source page.
Since 2026
Pay as you go · Documents and e-signature · Developers
- Interfaze
A model API for consistent OCR, audio understanding and structured data extraction, usable from common AI SDKs.
Since 2026
Pay as you go · Developer tools · Developers
- VLM Run
An API that reads documents and videos and returns structured JSON that developers and AI agents can act on.
Developer tools · Health and clinics
- Sygal
Mac and Windows app that turns PDFs, Office files, scans and web pages into tidy Markdown or JSON without sending them anywhere.
Since 2026
One-off payment · Documents and e-signature · Individuals and families
- DollarDeploy
Deploys apps from a GitHub repo onto a server in your own cloud account, with HTTPS and redeploys on each push.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- AnydocAI
Converts PDFs, office files and scans into clean Markdown, JSON or chunks ready for AI and search pipelines.
Since 2025
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- DocsRouter
One API for pulling text and fields from documents, routed to the vision model that fits your cost or quality needs.
Since 2025
Pay as you go · Documents and e-signature · Developers
- Extend
An API that parses, splits and pulls structured data out of messy documents for software teams and AI agents.
Since 2026
Documents and e-signature · Developers
- SnapOtter
Self-hosted tools to convert, compress, OCR and transcribe images, video, audio and PDFs on servers you own.
Free plan · Documents and e-signature
- Markdown Converters
Turns PDFs, Office files, scans and web pages into clean Markdown for use with AI chat tools, via web, API or MCP.
Free plan · Documents and e-signature
- Anvil
An API that fills PDFs, runs web forms and handles e-signatures, so software teams can build document steps into their apps.
Since 2019
Documents and e-signature · Developers
- Appliku
Sets up and manages your own cloud server to deploy Django apps, with a dashboard, CLI and API.
Since 2021
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- OCR.space
Pull text out of images and scanned PDFs online or through an API, and turn scans into searchable PDF files.
Free · Documents and e-signature