Download The Best And Free Google OCR Software For Document Scanning

February 12, 2009 · Filed Under Software · 3 Comments 
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What is the best OCR software? Searching for a free document scanning ocr? Free OCR software? Powered by Tesseract OCR engine, FreeOCR is a simple OCR (Optical character recognition) software for recognizing texts in an image, for instant converting books into digital format. Unlike OmniPage 16 which cost a bomb, Tesseract OCR engine also known as Google OCR was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test. The OCR scanner technology was put to test in scanning millions and millions of books found in Google Books. This goes to show the reliability and accuracy of Tesseract OCR engine, and the best part is, its Free!

The Tesseract OCR engine, also known as Google OCR was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it had little work done on it, but it is probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available. The source code will read a binary, grey or color image and output text. A tiff reader is built in that will read uncompressed TIFF images, or libtiff can be added to read compressed images. Source: Google OCR

Download the best OCR software – FreeOCR Powered by Tesseract OCR engine. The OCR PDF rendering in FreeOCR does not need any 3rd party software installed like Ghostscript or Adobe Acrobat to function and works only with PDF spec v1.6 documents.

p.s. Microsoft Word has an OCR feature not known by many people, visit this tutorial on how to use Microsoft Office OCR and for Microsoft Office 2007 user, you may want to visit this post on how to enable the OCR feature in Office 2007 which is disabled on default.

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Where is the OCR in Microsoft Office 2007

July 17, 2008 · Filed Under Uncategorized · 6 Comments 
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Why pay for Omnipage when OCR text scan comes bundled with Microsoft Office 2007? A friend of mine discovered that Microsoft 2007 does not come with OCR or better known as Document and Imaging, which is not quite true, the problem is due to the default installation with Microsoft Office 2007, OCR or Document and Imaging does not installed itself in the default installation.

Hold your horses, you don’t need to uninstall and reinstall Microsoft Office 2007, simple hit the ‘add and remove’ button in Control Panel and select ‘Change’

Where is the OCR in Microsoft Office 2007

Select the ‘add and remove feature’ radio button and select ‘next’

OCR in Microsoft Office 2007

In the following dialog box, select ‘Office Tool’ > ‘Microsoft Office Document Imaging’ > ‘ Scanning, OCR and Indexing Service Filter’ and under the drop down list choose ‘run from computer’ and proceed with the installation.

OCR in Microsoft Office 2007

There you go, now you’ve just enabled Microsoft Office 2007 OCR, and its free. Visit this post on how to use Microsoft Office 2007 OCR text scan.

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