Omnipage? Free OCR text scan

May 9, 2007 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials 

I bet once in a while you have this great article from a book or newspaper that you wanted to digitally archive it for personal use but you’re too lazy to type it word by word, and as usual OCR software that scans images and convert them to text are expensive, very expensive consider the fact that you’re going to use it once in a blue moon.

Fear now, most computers or shall I say almost every computer comes with Microsoft Office, and the best part is it comes with a free OCR software, I’ve tried a few Free OCR for example Simple OCR but it simpy doesn’t works as good as Omnipage but since I left my original CD back home, somewhere far far away, I decided to give Microsoft Office Free OCR a try and to my surprise it is somewhat on par with Omnipage, not as accurate but why pay for something that you are not going to use often, and why search for Omnipage crack or keygen when you have a free OCR software sitting in your comp.

Free OCR text scan

Omnipage? Free OCR text scan

It is called Microsoft Office Document Imaging, they layout of the program is simple and easy to use, unlike Omnipage which cater for advance user. The only drawback would be type of format accepted by Microsoft Office Document Imaging which is non other than .tif

Microsoft Office Document Imaging Free OCR text scan

The whole process is simple, search and execute the .tif file in your computer then click on the eye button, wait for 5 seconds for the scanning and when it is done, click on the W button on the right side of the eye button.

There you go, it will launch the output in Microsoft Word. Free OCR software that comes bundle with Microsoft Office, why pay for Omnipage? Spread the word!

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Comments


  1. Regli

    September 18th, 2007
    1

    Thank you for your comment. Problem is I have not got MODI under the folder indicated. I can see picture manager but not MODI. (Vista, MS Offices 2007)


  2. GeckoFly

    September 19th, 2007
    2

    i am using office 2003, it could either this feature exist only for the professional edition or you might not have installed the full version.


  3. Mem

    October 24th, 2007
    3

    Thanks for the info .. I didn’t realise this was on 2003 pro. Can’t find my omnipro cd so this is coming in handy :)


  4. Geof

    March 21st, 2008
    4

    Thanks for the help . I have checked it out and it works. My own Omnipage is corruprt and I do not wish to purchase very expensive software for the occasional OCR job. hanks again


  5. Tómas Árni Jr.

    March 27th, 2008
    5

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but I seriously doubt this Imaging software comes free.. I daresay it is a supplement to the Office Bundle, which is not free at all.
    As of yet I have not seen anything free coming from Microsoft and I’m not counting on it.
    Mind you that your computer probably costed like 100-300 bucks more just for Microsoft products (kind of guessing that number). Why settle for that when you could have OpenOffice and a very nice OS for free from the internet..
    Pardon me going a bit off trac on the end there :)
    Nice to know they have included an OCR anyway.


  6. Tómas Árni Jr.

    March 27th, 2008
    6

    wow.. didn’t note the date on the post :p
    well, Microsoft is timeless…


  7. Jeujue Amala

    March 29th, 2008
    7

    Microsoft Document Scanning works! I forgot completely about this software that came with Microsoft 2007 Office Ultimate that I purchased until today when I was looking for a free document scanning software on the internet. I had used Textbridge for the past 8 years with many versions of Windows OS and I was not willing to buy another expensive scanning software. It worked some good degree of accuracy.

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