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PaperStream Capture Pro is a powerful front-end capture software that transforms paper documents (or imported digital files) into clean, indexed, searchable digital data ready for document-management workflows. It supports batch scanning with any TWAIN-compatible scanner, whether a desktop model or an enterprise-grade device, and uses advanced image-processing via its integrated engine to automatically enhance scanned images, remove noise, correct skew/rotation/color issues, and improve clarity for better OCR and readability. It offers robust data-extraction capabilities; full-text OCR, zonal OCR, barcode and patch-code reading, and even optical-mark-recognition and handprint recognition for handwritten block text or checkboxes. It can extract many fields per document (for example, from forms, applications, or surveys), automatically separate documents in mixed batches (using blank pages, barcodes, patch codes, or form-template recognition), and assign metadata.

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.