Free OCR Software
Published by: SoftDistrict, in Free online software
March8th2010
OCR means optical character recognition. The free OCR software is very helpful when you are dealing with documents that are only available in their physical form, that is you don't have an electronic version of them and you have to introduce them in your computer for editing, publishing them or using them in any other way . Well, it would take you a long time to re-type everything that is being written there, so why don't you try to look for a more simple and easy solution: first scan the documents and then use an OCR software to recognize the characters written there and after that save the document and feel free to edit it and use it as you feel like it.
Free OCR 2.6 is an example of such free OCR software that is very easy to install and use. It supports multi page documents, faxesas well as most image types, including the compressed ones that are not supported by other software applications. This is the latest version of the software and it brings some new and improved features like the possibility to fix the minor bugs in PDF by rendering code, the introducing of the PDF button that can now open the PDF files that are already scanned by this OCR software, the possibility to select images from a scanned document and place them on the clipboard, crop the scans before using the OCR, a special button that was added with the purpose of removing the line break from the OCR text, the ability to fix the bugs that cause the OCR to crash when opening PNGs and finally a totally improved user interface.

Simple OCR 3.1 is the most popular free OCR software because it is very easy to install and use and because it offers a variety of useful tools.
It converts scanned images into editable formats like MSWord. The latest version came to meet the users' requests and added a tutorial and a validation stage. The only problem with this software is that you can use only the printed character recognition for unlimited free use. But the handwriting recognition id offered only as a free trial for a period of 14 days. After all free software does have its drawbacks. You can set up this software to read directly from the scanner or by adding a page with one of the following extensions: .jpg, .tiff, .bmp, etc. You can control the conversion from scanned document to editable document by using some features like text selection, image selection and text ignore.

You know that scanned documents are not always perfectly readable, so it's only normal to check the accuracy of a scanned document after it was converted by using the OCR software. That is why immediately after conversion it will pass through a validation stage where it will be checked and corrected. You can use the built-in spell checker or you can do this yourself. The last step would be to save the converted text into a .doc or .txt format that you can edit later.
Of course these are only two examples of free OCR software, but there are a lot more tools that you can use, too.
Free OCR 2.6 is an example of such free OCR software that is very easy to install and use. It supports multi page documents, faxesas well as most image types, including the compressed ones that are not supported by other software applications. This is the latest version of the software and it brings some new and improved features like the possibility to fix the minor bugs in PDF by rendering code, the introducing of the PDF button that can now open the PDF files that are already scanned by this OCR software, the possibility to select images from a scanned document and place them on the clipboard, crop the scans before using the OCR, a special button that was added with the purpose of removing the line break from the OCR text, the ability to fix the bugs that cause the OCR to crash when opening PNGs and finally a totally improved user interface.

Simple OCR 3.1 is the most popular free OCR software because it is very easy to install and use and because it offers a variety of useful tools.
It converts scanned images into editable formats like MSWord. The latest version came to meet the users' requests and added a tutorial and a validation stage. The only problem with this software is that you can use only the printed character recognition for unlimited free use. But the handwriting recognition id offered only as a free trial for a period of 14 days. After all free software does have its drawbacks. You can set up this software to read directly from the scanner or by adding a page with one of the following extensions: .jpg, .tiff, .bmp, etc. You can control the conversion from scanned document to editable document by using some features like text selection, image selection and text ignore.

You know that scanned documents are not always perfectly readable, so it's only normal to check the accuracy of a scanned document after it was converted by using the OCR software. That is why immediately after conversion it will pass through a validation stage where it will be checked and corrected. You can use the built-in spell checker or you can do this yourself. The last step would be to save the converted text into a .doc or .txt format that you can edit later.
Of course these are only two examples of free OCR software, but there are a lot more tools that you can use, too.











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