Looking for free OCR program

[Chaos Master]

Hello people!

Do you know of any free OCR (optical character recognition) program?
My scanner came with one, but it's not very good and is 'liteware'.

thanks.
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[jimnluna]

http://www.simpleocr.com/
you may want to look at this
Jim

I've never seen a freeware OCR program as good as the "liteware" that
comes
with scanners.

Hello people!

Do you know of any free OCR (optical character recognition) program?
My scanner came with one, but it's not very good and is 'liteware'.

thanks.
--
Chaos Master®, posting from Brazil. REPLY TO GROUP!
"People told me I can't dress like a fairy.
I say, I'm in a rock band and I can do what the hell I want!"
-- Amy Lee

Note: please don't give me TinyURL addresses.

NP on foobar2k: Evanescence - My Immortal (piano/vocal version) [5:18]

 

[Michael Rainey]

I've never seen a freeware OCR program as good as the "liteware" that comes
with scanners.

 

[Michael Rainey]

Also read user opinions here:
http://www.download.com/3302-2070_4-10152129.html

http://www.simpleocr.com/
you may want to look at this
Jim

I've never seen a freeware OCR program as good as the "liteware" that
comes
with scanners.

Hello people!

Do you know of any free OCR (optical character recognition) program?
My scanner came with one, but it's not very good and is 'liteware'.

thanks.
--
Chaos Master®, posting from Brazil. REPLY TO GROUP!
"People told me I can't dress like a fairy.
I say, I'm in a rock band and I can do what the hell I want!"
-- Amy Lee

Note: please don't give me TinyURL addresses.

NP on foobar2k: Evanescence - My Immortal (piano/vocal version) [5:18]

 

[JW]

http://www.simpleocr.com/
you may want to look at this
Jim

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I've had very mixed results with SimpleOCR even on relatively simple stuff. It
failed to recognize almost anything on a page with tables. Downloaded Abbyy
(abbyy.com) and was amazed at the accuracy of the results. Unfortunately it's
quite expensive. Fortunately, I only needed it for a few documents and was able
to convert the docs during the short, but fully functional trial...

jon

 

[Chaos Master]

cat JW ([email protected]) :

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I've had very mixed results with SimpleOCR even on relatively simple stuff. It
failed to recognize almost anything on a page with tables. Downloaded Abbyy
(abbyy.com) and was amazed at the accuracy of the results. Unfortunately it's
quite expensive. Fortunately, I only needed it for a few documents and was able
to convert the docs during the short, but fully functional trial...

OK, thanks for the suggestions.

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I've had very mixed results with SimpleOCR even on relatively
simple stuff. It failed to recognize almost anything on a page
with tables. Downloaded

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[Susan Bugher]

JW <[email protected]> stated:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/Webware.php

Lists some free webware for OCR:

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

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

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

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

Susan

 

[bassbag]

Hello people!

Do you know of any free OCR (optical character recognition) program?
My scanner came with one, but it's not very good and is 'liteware'.

thanks.

Ive tried simple ocr (freeware) for a project ,but unfortunatly it wasnt in
the same league as abbyy finereader.I ended up getting a previous version of
abbyy(5) off ebay for less than the price of a magazine.If the project you
want it for is important then it may be worth biting the bullet ,and getting
a bargain off ebay.
me