Free OCR Software

OCR, refers to Optional Character Recognition, is a technology supports converting any scanned documents, PDF files or images captured by a digital camera into editable and searchable data. Nowadays, OCR technoloty is widely used throughout the entire spectrum of industries. In our daily study or work, we may also use it. Such as we eager to convert a scanned image to PDF files so that we can read it on our e-reader. Here ORC software is needed.

Often we may have to pay money for this kind of software. But it is now economical because there are not so many chance that we need ORC software. Fortunately, there is free OCR software. This page will introduce you several free OCR programs which may help you a lot.

Top OCR Software for Free

1. THE ORC

It is desktop which is free only for personal use. With great performance, it can create ASCII text from scanned images like bitmap or image file. The free version for personal user may contain popups and advertising, so you have to pay for registered version if you want to turn them off.

2. Tesseract

Being one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test, the Tesseract ORC enables you to convert a wide variety of image formats files and convert them to text. What the most distinctive feature lies in it supports more than 40 languages for output files.

3. PaperFile

It is a free OCR program designed especially for Windows user. It enables us to convert files from most Twain scanners and most scanned PDF and image in TIFF format to test and word document freely. It is also very easy to use and update frequently to repair bugs.

4. Free OCR

This free ORC software is online application which takes no room of your computer. You just only upload you files to the online software, and then it will converter for you for free. There are various languages for you to choose. It can support files in PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP.

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