FreeOCR is a free Optical Character Recognition Software for Windows and supports scanning from most Twain scanners and can also open most scanned PDF’s and multi page Tiff images as well as popular image file formats.
Customer Reviews
Jose C.
Advanced user of FreeOCRThis program is very user friendly and I can work on all my scans using it. I like how it interfaces directly with scanners in addition to importing image files and extracts text into a box from which you can cut and paste. The program is extremely easy to use and works well if all you want is text. It even extracts text from PDFs, though it exports only to text. I love how many of my clients will send me a scanned documents and all I need to do is convert it to the ocr to where I can copy and past the words into whatever program I am using.
I do not like that you can only process one image at a time. Working in the real estate industry I deal with multiple documents, which many are scans of contracts/etc., so it would greatly help if I were able to process multiple images. I also wish that I could be able to convert and ocr more than one file at one time because I work with several documents at once.
If you are looking to convert scans into a word file I highly recommend this product. It works great for whenever you are needing to simply copy and past words from a document that has been scanned.
I do not like that FreeOCR processes only one image at a time, but it does OCR multi-page PDFs. There are no limits on file size. Also, FreeOCR can create Word and RTF documents from the text it extracts, but it's just pasted text.There's no attempt to reconstruct the document or place images.
