0:30 Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner Optical character recognition (OCR) or optical character reader is the electronic or …

Some software allows redaction, removing content irreversibly for security. Extracting embedded text is a common feature, but other applications perform optical character recognition (OCR) to convert …

This comparison of optical character recognition software includes: OCR engines, that do the actual character identification Layout analysis software, that divide scanned documents into zones suitable …

Cogniview is an international computer software company, focusing mainly on data conversion applications for the PC. The company has released several free open source software products …

Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. [5] It is free software, released under the Apache License. [1][6][7] Originally developed by Hewlett-Packard as proprietary …

ABBYY FineReader PDF is an optical character recognition (OCR) application developed by ABBYY. [2][3] First released in 1993, the program runs on Microsoft Windows (Windows 7 or later) and Apple …

Solid PDF Tools is a document reconstruction software product which allows users to convert PDFs into editable documents and create PDFs from a variety of file sources.

PDF24 Creator is an application software by Geek Software GmbH for the creation of PDF files from any application and for converting files to the PDF format. The application is released under a proprietary …

GOCR (or JOCR) is a free optical character recognition program, initially written by Jörg Schulenburg. It can be used to convert or scan image files (portable pixmap or PCX) into text files.

Ocrad can be used as a stand-alone command-line application or as a back-end to other programs. Kooka, which was the KDE environment's default scanning application until KDE 4, can use Ocrad …