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We have tried Omnipage, it can automatically batch convert files; monitor, recognize and convert files from incoming emails directly to your network; access scanned files from anywhere in your organization; archive documents directly into Microsoft SharePoint. But it costs $149. Is there any Free OCR Software? We recommend you the following tools:
FreeOCR
FreeOCR is a totaly free Scan and OCR program it very accurate and uses the open source Tesseract OCR Engine. It is very easy to use and supports multipage Tiff documents. The extracted text can be edited and exported to your word processor.
Tesseract
The Tesseract free OCR engine is an open source product released by Google. It was developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories between 1985 and 1995. In 1995 it was one of the top 3 performers at the OCR accuracy contest organized by University of Nevada in Las Vegas. The Tesseract engine source code is now maintained by Google.
GOCR
GOCR is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program that runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX. It is a command line program that allows you to recognise characters from an image file. This frontend for GOCR is graphical and is designed to be simple to use, just select the graphics file that you want to recognise, and the output will be shown to you. You can then copy this output and Paste It to somewhere useful. Most major graphical file formats are supported.
We have tried Omnipage, it can automatically batch convert files; monitor, recognize and convert files from incoming emails directly to your network; access scanned files from anywhere in your organization; archive documents directly into Microsoft SharePoint. But it costs $149. Is there any Free OCR Software? We recommend you the following tools:
FreeOCR
FreeOCR is a totaly free Scan and OCR program it very accurate and uses the open source Tesseract OCR Engine. It is very easy to use and supports multipage Tiff documents. The extracted text can be edited and exported to your word processor.
Tesseract
The Tesseract free OCR engine is an open source product released by Google. It was developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories between 1985 and 1995. In 1995 it was one of the top 3 performers at the OCR accuracy contest organized by University of Nevada in Las Vegas. The Tesseract engine source code is now maintained by Google.
GOCR
GOCR is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program that runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX. It is a command line program that allows you to recognise characters from an image file. This frontend for GOCR is graphical and is designed to be simple to use, just select the graphics file that you want to recognise, and the output will be shown to you. You can then copy this output and Paste It to somewhere useful. Most major graphical file formats are supported.
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