OCR software

Hi all,

I don't recall seeing discussions on this one before.

A friend of mine is asking me for a good, free windows OCR that should help him read his images and convert to text (what OCR does, like duh). Is anyone familiar with something reasonable, convenient, easy to use, high percentage of correct conversion, solid image processing speed, etc?

Regards,
Mrk

 

Best Free OCR , is FreeOCR.NET based on Google Tesseract engine. It uses .NET for GUI.
http://softi.co.uk/freeocr.htm

Its sufficient for my infrequent needs. Since its free, you can ask your friend to check it out and see if it fits the bill.

 

hi mrk, try omniformat http://www.omniformat.com/
also ms office has some OCR function built into it.if your friend by any chance has it its worth a shot.

 

Will report progress, thanks!
Cheers,
Mrk

 

I remember a topic on this before , for me these two are the best
1)Abbyy fine reader
2)Omnipage professional

 

Yes, paid softwares are pretty "damn" good, but Mrk is asking for a freeware.

 

Just saw this over at Makeuseof.com:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-extract-the-text-from-images/

 

I'm surprised someone hasn't created a utility that can leverage the built-in OCR capability of Window's tabletPC feature. If you check using pkgmgr or dism you can see theres a package named WinOCR.