Can you imagine you have a bunch of scanned images (which contain text inside) from your boss or teacher, and your job is to re-write them and save the text into Microsoft word format? If you face this kind of problem, actually you do not need to re-type the text, all you need is OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. It is a tool which can help you to extract any characters (numbers, letters, dots, comma, and others) from images / pictures / photos. FreeOCR is one of OCR software that is free. Yes, as its name, you can download free OCR software and use it without any limitations. So if you are looking for a free OCR software to convert images into editable text then freeOCR is the right solution for you. Moreover it also comes with scanner software. If you need online ocr tool, you can try free OCR with Google Docs.
How To Use?
It is very easy to use plus it has a simple user interface. Basically FreeOCR comes with scanner and OCR software packed in one application. It works as a scanner software means you can use / run your scanner to scan printed documents through FreeOCR, and show the scan result on FreeOCR window. So if you want to use your scanner just hit the scanner button to start scanning a printed document.
It also works as OCR software, you can use your scanned documents or load image file or load PDF document as the input. FreeOCR supports most of image formats and multi-page TIFF files. The user interface comes with double windows so it is very easy to manage the input, output, and configuring the settings. To start using FreeOCR, simply choose the input image or a PDF file, and then load it. You can make a selection to the area of image that you want to convert. Next, hit the “OCR” button to start converting image into editable text.
The accuracy of OCR result will not perfect but I think it is good enough for free OCR software. The result of OCR depends on many factors like image quality, noises, resolutions and so on. To fix some errors you can edit the text (on the free OCR right window). After you have done all the processes you can save text into txt format or export the text into Microsoft word.
Features
1. Simple interface and easy to use. It uses double windows interface (right-left), only comes with few necessary buttons yet very useful.
2. Comes with free scanner software.
3. Provides OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to convert images into editable text. It uses an open source tesseract free ocr engine also known as a Tesseract GUI on Google codes.
4. It can use images from scanners, load or open image file and Adobe PDF Documents.
5. Supports various image formats (jpg, bmp, gif, png and etc.) and multi-page TIFF files.
6. Fit image and width, rotate image, zoom in and zoom out, image selection
Save text result, copy text to clipboard, and export text into Microsoft Word
FreeOCR is compatible with windows 7, Vista, XP 32bit, 2003 and 2000 (it requires Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0). After all it allows you to convert images into editable text for free. Download free OCR software via the link below:
Download FreeOCR via PaperPage
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