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I am looking for decent OCR (Optical Character Recognition) freeware to scan
text into active wordprocessor.
For printed text only will do.
Thanks
Mike A
 
I am looking for decent OCR (Optical Character Recognition) freeware
to scan text into active wordprocessor.
For printed text only will do.
Thanks
Mike A
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SimpleOCR - Optical Character Recognition
The only Royalty Free OCR API. The only free OCR application.


We are proud to announce the release of SimpleOCR 3.1! Version 3.1 adds
many important new features to the SimpleOCR engine:

* API now includes an ActiveX wrapper dll for easy integration
* Supports input from TIFF, BMP and JPEG image files
* Supports color and grayscale images
* Verifier that compares suspected errors to the original image
* Bundled with 14-day evaluation of CharacTell's handprint
recognition engine
* A video demo is now included that demonstrates how to use the
application
* 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

www.simpleocr.com
 
Jaime said:
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SimpleOCR - Optical Character Recognition
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www.simpleocr.com
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There's some Webware:

DocMorph
Document conversion tools (50 types of files) Convert to PDF; TIFF;
text; synthesized speech

http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/


ExperVision
Convert images to text. WebOCR accepts color; grayscale and B/W images
from either scanner or file.

http://www.expervision.com/webtr6.htm

Susan
 
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SimpleOCR - Optical Character Recognition
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One of the very few freeware applications I totally gave up on. Even
at high resolution I couldn't get it to work worth a damn. It has
been replaced on my machine by a payware OCR which shall be nameless
but reads everything - even poor print, to a very high percentage of
accuracy.

Unless it has changed radically, I fear there's something
fundamentally wrong with SimpleOCR.
 
One of the very few freeware applications I totally gave up on. Even
at high resolution I couldn't get it to work worth a damn.
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It's optimised for reading mono (bi-level) images scanned at 300 dpi.
Works good enough for me at that resolution. Higher resolutions don't
improve it's output, rather the opposite. Also the better quality of
text scanned, better the result.
It has
been replaced on my machine by a payware OCR which shall be nameless
but reads everything - even poor print, to a very high percentage of
accuracy.

Unless it has changed radically, I fear there's something
fundamentally wrong with SimpleOCR.
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I don't have much call for OCR so SimpleOCR does the few jobs well
enough to suit my needs. YMMV I guess.
 
I am looking for decent OCR (Optical Character Recognition) freeware
to scan text into active wordprocessor.
For printed text only will do.
Thanks
Mike A
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If you have Microsoft Office, look for the obscure program called
Microsoft Office Document Imaging in the Microsoft Office Tools Folder
on your Program Menu. If its not there, get out your Office CD and
load it. It will do OCR on TIFF images. You can convert a scanned JPG
into a TIFF by opening and resaving it in most graphic viewers (like
IrfanView) and even in MS Paint. It's free if you have MS Office :).

Tip: to perform quick OCR, choose the "Send text to Word" under the
Tools or File Menus depending on which version of Office you have. OCR
will be done, Word will be opened and what it thinks the text reads
will be there.

Tip: Document Imaging may also obey the 300 DPI rule like SimpleOCR and
DOCMorph mentioned below. There is a happy medium of DPI resolution
for it as well as the other solutions (DOCMorph tells you to use at
least 300 DPI too).

Tip: MS Office Document Imaging may be a good solution to the problem
that most Windows errors do not have selectable text for use in a quick
Web search. Next time you get an error, try this: first hold down the
Alt Key and tap the Print Screen Key. Open Document Imaging, and
choose "Paste Page" from the Page Menu. Next choose, Send Text to Word
from the appropriate menu and finally edit the text while comparing it
to you error message. You will have to do some editing but it may be
better than trying to type in an error from scratch.
 
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