FreeOCR
FreeOCR is a free Optical Character Recognition Software for Windows and supports scanning from most Twain scanners and can also open most scanned PDF's and multi-page Tiff images as well as popular image file formats. FreeOCR outputs plain text and can export directly to Microsoft Word format. Free OCR uses the latest Tesseract (v3.01) OCR engine. It includes a Windows installer and It is very simple to use and supports opening multi-page tiff documents, Adobe PDF, and fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff's which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read.It now can scan using Twain and WIA scanning drivers. FreeOCR V4 includes Tesseract V3 which increases accuracy and has page layout analysis so more accurate results can be achieved without using the zone selection tool. As well as OCR FreeOCR can scan and save images as JPG and we are currently working on a "Scan to PDF" capability with the option to save as searchable PDF.
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Yandex Vision
Yandex Vision OCR recognizes text in an image and outputs it along with automatic punctuation. The service supports and automatically identifies more than 50 languages. Extract standard fields and recognize text in templates and documents, e.g., passports, driver’s licenses, vehicle registration certificates, and license plates. With support for Russian and English, as well as combinations of handwritten and printed texts. The service scans the table structure and outputs text in row and column coordinates. Optical character recognition (OCR), document recognition, and license plate number recognition. Yandex Vision OCR allows you to work with JPEG, PNG, and PDF formats. File sizes should be no larger than 20 MB with no more than 300 pages per file. The service can scan images and find passports from 20 countries, driver’s licenses, vehicle registration documents, and license plates.
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ScanTextAI
ScanTextAI is an online service that converts images, photos, screenshots, and scanned documents into text, allowing users to extract text accurately from images and save it in PDF or Word formats. Utilizing advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, it swiftly extracts text from various image formats, including JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, and WEBP, supporting over 50 languages to ensure high accuracy and efficiency. The platform emphasizes user privacy and security by ensuring that uploaded files remain stored on the user's device, with no access by others, thereby maintaining the user's copyright and ownership. ScanTextAI is user-friendly, requiring no registration, and offers free services for tasks such as digitizing handwritten notes, converting printed books into e-books, and extracting readable text from screenshots, facilitating easy editing and information retrieval.
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Informatik Scan
Informatik Scan is a universal user-interactive a scanning software program compatible with TWAIN compliant scanners. The scanned images are displayed and can be saved as a single or multi-page TIFF or PDF (also PDF/A) file or in many other common graphics formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP. Features include Optical Character Recognition (OCR), auto-incrementing file naming, multi-page functions, redaction (white-out, blackout), border removal, thumbnail display, separator sheets, individual and global rotations, auto-trimming,black border removal, cropping, deskewing, and more. For a complete list of features see the section below. Informatik Scan is a perfect companion to our Infothek Archiver document management software. A separate program is available for scanning documents and automatically naming the output (single page or multi-page) according to a barcode or text on the scanned pages or separator pages. Most barcode symbologies are supported, as well as OCR.
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