Softi FreeOCR is an image-to-text program using the Tesseract Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. It supports multi-page TIFF images and import of documents via TWAIN scanners. Scanned text can be saved as ASCII text files.
Note: Images must have high detail (around 300 dpi) to recognize text reliably. Additionally, the application has been discontinued and website taken offline, so we have made it available for direct download.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
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Similar/alternative apps: | PDF XChange Viewer (with OCR plugin) |
amcclendon: if you give it even somewhat small text, it will choke. I usually have to give it stuff scanned at 200 DPI (most pages taking up about 2 megs).
V1.5
didn't work. All it did was output some gibberish.
V1.5
Another free OCR tool that cna convert any image to text, scanned image to text, and even PDF to text is www.ocrconvert.com .
Free OCR is an online application that allows free and easy way to convert an image (with text) in text document.
The website is at: http://www.goodocr.com/
Though not as good as commercial softwares, some online OCR services are not bad, for example, site free ocr.
It seams as if the application website has abandoned this software as I find no mention.
Has anyone tried version 2.6 from an installer?
Its (2.6) available at http://www.brothersoft.com/freeocr-59672.html
Works great! I've used other OCR's which couldn't interpret some of the more fanciful text fonts. I was very pleased with the results of using this great program! Be sure to scan text ay 200 X 200 DPI.
I like it as it works with my scanner and OCR is quick. For more languages, download the language packs for tesseract 2.00 (dated Jul 2007) at this link: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/list?num=100&start=100
v1.5