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TopReviewer asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 1 decade ago

OCR Optical Character Recognition software ?

Can anyone reccommend a free OCR program?

I have about 300 pages to scan

and I don't want to have to type all that too.

There are several out there,

just wondered if anyone may have tried several

and found one that they prefer over all the others.

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  • Ole R
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    you can find a free OCR program here, call'd simpelOCR

    http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/SimpleOCR/SimpleO...

  • Kainoa
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    My scanner came with OCR software and photo editor.

    I haven't seen any free software for OCR, just trial versions which put a big watermark across your scan.

  • Hector S
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    The best I've ever used is ReadIRIS Pro. It's not free, but it's fully functional for 30 days. Best of all you can save as a Microsoft Word document with all the formatting in place.

    Source(s): http://www.irislink.com/
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Generally scanners come with built in OCR capability in their software.

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  • jlp.media
    1 decade ago

    i may have a brother thats an OCR..i would actually try click-now.com. but thats just me

  • bradthepilot
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    try download.com and get a trial version

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