FREE OCR software: a survey of desktop and online tools

Printing text to paper is done every day; on some occasions however the reverse is needed – getting the original text back from a...

Convert screenshots to text with Capture2Text, a free optical character recognition (OCR) app

There are times when you might see some on-screen text and want to grab it or use it in a document, only to find...

Free Giveaway – ABBYY Screenshot reader performs on-screen Optical Character Recognition

Ever wanted to edit or use some on-screen text from a PDF or any other source, only to find that for whatever reason you...

Free Online OCR: web app delivers editable text from scanned images or PDFs

Do you have PDF documents or images (e.g. JPG, PNG, TIFF) that were created using a scanner, and that you wish you could convert...

FreeOCR.net: free optical character recognition program converts images to text in multiple languages

Have you ever faced a situation where you needed to obtain editable text out of an image or a PDF file created from a...

JOCR

JOCR is a little program that can capture an image from any part of the desktop and perform optical character recognition (convert images to...

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