Free Online OCR Service For Mac OS X And Windows User

Looking for a free a optical character recognition software? If you’re not a heavy user and needs to use this sort of service once in a blue moon, try Free Online OCR. It is not the best in term of features and recognition engine but it gets the job done, albeit with minor mistakes.

Unlimited uploads, no registration, 100% secure!
Layout analysis (multi-column text recognition)
Image files (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, multipage TIFF) up to 5 MB
Multipage PDF documents up to 20 MB
Download results as a text file or Word document

Con:

Does not recognize images and the overall layout
Text recognition is somewhat acceptable

If you hate installing software onto your system, this is the tool. However, if you’re looking for something much more powerful and free, do give SimpleOCR a try.

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