OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition: it is a technology that, after the optical scanning of a page or image, recognizes the characters that make up the text and creates a text file that can later be reviewed, formatted, indexed, automatically translated, or converted into an audio file. OCR software is very convenient to convert a pdf, jpeg or tif file into an editable electronic format. On these pages you can find some free OCR programs.
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On the onlineocr.org page you will find a web-based application allowing you to process images in PDF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF and GIF formats with optical character recognition (OCR) and obtain an editable text file, or a Word file. The service is free and requires no registration. Files can have a maximum ...
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NuancePDF is a cloud-based free conversion service that converts PDF files into formatted and editable Word, Excel, RTF or WordPerfect files. It makes use of OCR technology, which makes the conversion very accurate. NuancePDF works online, but you need to download and install a desktop Nuance PDF Reader. ...
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A lot of web pages and pdf files cannot be copied in the usual manner. Capture2Text enables you to use OCR to capture a portion of the screenful and to save the text to the clipboard or another editable file format. It supports more than 30 languages, including Asian languages like Chinese and Japanese. ...
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OCR Online is an advanced web-based optical character recognition application by which you can turn scanned paper documents and digital photographs into editable text files. It has multilingual support (over 150 languages) and high recognition accuracy with fonts and layouts. It supports the following ...
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