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Regarding free Optical Character Recognition software anyone know any good, malware free OCR and/or .PDF to .TIF converters?

#1 User is offline   lichamleas 

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Posted 10 July 2009 - 10:28 AM

Hello everyone. I hope this is the right forum to post this question.

Recently I've been having a look around for some free OCR software in regards to converting a few scanned book pages to editable text. Quite a few people I've asked have mentioned the Microsoft Office Document Imaging program but that's no good in my case since I don't use Microsoft Office at all.

I was thinking of trying the free SimpleOCR program (anyone have any thoughts on it either way?) but that brings another problem. Namely in that it only scans from .TIFF files, a format I know next to nothing about. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

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Posted 13 July 2009 - 12:56 AM

I think you can convert your scans to .TIF by using Media-Convert (http://media-convert.com), then use SimpleOCR to complete the procedure.
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Posted 13 July 2009 - 07:41 AM

Thanks for the information about .TIFF conversion Multi-Destiny. Alas, SimpleOCR proved unable to work with the documents I was hoping to scan.

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 08:19 PM

How about www.free-ocr.com

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Posted 29 July 2009 - 09:23 AM

View PostChris S., on Jul 24 2009, 02:19 AM, said:

How about www.free-ocr.com


Thanks very much. That works really well even for slightly of centre text.

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