Optical Character Recognition
aka OCR is the process of converting
a image file into an text document that you can open
and edit whith Microsoft Word/Excel processor, or
another text editor programs. Now most of OCR software
packages support for multiple languages, PDF
and HTML output. Free
OCR software is necessary for those who needs
to retype that document which exists only in a paper.
You could easy turn that paper document into editable
text with Free OCR Software. And
use it in any application including Microsoft Word
and WordPerfect.
The Note: For successful character recognition the OCR
Software needs a high resolution file - at
least 300dpi!
SimpleOCR
You can add character recognition capabilities to
your custom software by using SimpleOCR
without the complexity and expense of runtime licensing.
SimpleOCR is the only OCR API that's Royalty Free
Save hundreds on every runtime license
Version 3.5 Now Available!
We are proud to announce the release of SimpleOCR 3.5! Version 3.5 adds many important new features to the SimpleOCR engine:
Template matching in OCR engine:
Supports color and grayscale images
API now includes an ActiveX wrapper dll for easy integration
Supports input from TIFF, BMP and JPEG image files
A video demo is now included that demonstrates how to use the application
Ability to limit the character set used in OCR
Bundled with 14-day evaluation of CharacTell's handprint recognition engine
Verifier that compares suspected errors to the original image
API comes with include files for easy integration in Visual Basic and Delphi
API returns coordinates of recognized words and images
Several crash bugs were eliminated
IMAGE2PDF
IMAGE2PDF is a file utility to convert
image files into 1 PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format)
or multiple PDFs. You can convert
1 image file per pdf or many images into 1 pdf. Images
can be scanned. Set PDF permissions , set PDFf properties
and encrypt PDF.
Images can be various format: TIF, JPG, BMP,
GIF, PNG, WMF AND EMF. Adobe Acrobat Reader is not needed.
Different page sizes can be used
Your can set own custom pdf page width and custom pdf page length
It's easy to use Image to PDF program!
And it's absolutely Free OCR Software!
Common features of Free OCR Software:
Accuracy - The main
feature of any OCR software is accuracy. OCR
Software needs to have up to 98% accuracy
to be very useful. The increased accuracy greatly
reduces the need for proof reading and correction
after recognition . The OCR software needs to decrease any background clutter
in the image and churn out accurate text.
Dictionary - Free
OCR Software must come with a big dictionary
which must be frequently updated. Adding words to the dictionary by yourself,
you increase accuracy of OCR Software with every use.
Despeckle - For
those documents / images which are not
clear enough (i.e. faxes, bad copies), Free
OCR Software provides a "noisy
document" or despeckle option which should increase
the Free OCR Software accuracy.
Format Retention
- OCR Software should keep certain
elements of the document's format in the recognized
document. From font sizes to font attributes such
as underline, bold, and italic,
Free OCR Software should recognizes
it all. Along with the document's text, Free OCR Software
should have the features to capture and save pictures
from the document along with the option to extract
only the plain text also.
Batch OCR - Free
OCR Software should support batch mode
so that multiple documents can be extracted at one
go.
Zone OCR -
Sometimes all you may need is to extract the text
from a certain area in a document. Maybe
one footnote. Maybe a column or one paragraph.
Free OCR Software
should have support for Zone scanning as well.
Output Formats
- Free OCR Software should output
in various formats such as DOC, XLS, TXT and RTF which are
importable into most every program such as Word, Excel, WordPerfect,
HTML editors, and e-mail programs, either fully formatted or as
plain text. Also, it can save scanned
documents in the industry standard TIFF format, a
format as widely accepted as PDF files.
Multiple Language Support
- Free OCR Software should
support multiple language recognition.
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