Optical Character Recognition or Automatic Text Character Recognition is the process of converting scanned images of manuscripts or printed texts into computer readable text.
Optical Character Recognition makes it possible to re-edit text, avoiding typing it from scratch. OCR systems require calibration to read a specific font.
Today there are ΄΄intelligent΄΄ programs with a high recognition index and some are capable of reproducing even the non-text information in a document, such as images, columns, lines, angles, etc.
For this purpose, we have collected and present to you the 9 best free applications that will help you convert images with text, PDF files, or other types of documents into editable text.
The OCR function is used to digitize documents, so through this way you can use the OCR function to automatically scan and recognize text within your image or already scanned document.
This way you can turn any image, scanned document or printed PDF into editable documents. You can use visual character recognition from any app, anytime, anywhere!
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Use OCR to turn scanned images containing text in your PDF document into plain text that you can copy, paste, and edit just like with Word.
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Free online optical character recognition (OCR) application that can extract text from images so that it can be edited, formatted, indexed, searched, or translated.
Input images could be scanned documents (eg books, faxes, receipts, bank statements, contracts, etc.), screenshots, photographs, or images taken from a digital camera. i2OCR recognizes multi-column documents written in 60+ languages, supports several large input image formats, which can be loaded from disk or URL, displays recognized text as well as input image image side-by-side to facilitate review of surreptitiously recognized words.
Recognized text can be uploaded as a doc or text file, translated or edited online using Google Docs.
All input images and text files that are created are automatically deleted in a short period of time, usually one hour. Finally, it offers unlimited downloads, without the need for email or registration, and above all it is 100% free.
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OCR programs are more or less familiar to everyone, in short for those who do not know they are programs that help us scan our documents into PDF files and then into editable files such as Microsoft Word. There are several programs of this type and some of them top, but the purchase price for an average user is usually prohibitive.
No matter how hard you search, unfortunately you won't find a corresponding free product with similar features, nevertheless after searching the matter thoroughly we found one of the best free solutions online.
The solution is called OnlineOCR.net and it will help us recognize text and characters from scanned PDF documents (including multi-page files), photos and digital photos from our camera and generally help us convert text and images from scanned PDF documents to files Word. Although registration is not necessary (no registration allows you to convert 15 images per hour.) subscribing to the service (it's free) will give you the ability to convert multi-page PDF documents and many other features.
After registering for the service, log in to your account, select the language of the document and press Select File to upload it. Select the output format and click on Convert to start the conversion. Finally, after the conversion is finished, click on the Word document to open it and save it to your computer.
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Smart application that can help you in the most efficient way to capture as screenshot texts from various documents or web pages and then export them as text.
Quite simple to use, worth a try. Easy OCR supports the recognition of more than 100 languages from around the world. The way it works is very simple. After installing the program on your computer, right-click on the application icon that you will see at the bottom right of the taskbar of your computer, click on Preference and select the language of the text. From there click Capture and click the area you wish to extract the text from and click the OCR button.
Finally, select the text to be extracted from the text field and copy it to any word processor.
In the case of large texts for even more faithful results, I recommend that you select and extract the text from your paragraph-by-paragraph image.
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Need to extract text from images, videos or PDFs? If so, then OCR Copyfish is the ideal software for you. The simplest way usually to extract text from images is to write it somewhere save it and send it by email or translate it.
Basically, until now, your only option was to print the text. Especially for the case of subtitle translations, Copyfish has a repeatable feature. Highlight the subtitle area once and then use the "Do OCR" button to capture the last text from the screen.
Now, if you need to switch OCR languages frequently you can set "quick switch" buttons for up to three languages on the settings page. However, where it can be very useful is to export as OCR text any text inside photos videos PDF files and other media.
The way it works in general is as follows: By clicking on the Copyfish button, we select the text we want from the photo and wait a while until the OCR process is completed. From there you can paste it (via Copy to Clipboard) into any text editor or press the Google Translate icon for instant translation. It will work on Google Chrome and Mozilla
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GT Text is an amazing free software OCR program that will enable us to convert images containing texts into normal editable text. Its operation is very simple and it supports many languages including Greek.
Through the application you can edit images that contain text for example, you can scan books or magazines and save the pages you want as images and from there copy its text into a text document in Word or any other word processor .
You can even save sections or pages from pdf documents as images and edit them in the same way. Finally, it gives you the possibility to capture any web page or part of it and in the same way to export the text.
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PDF24 Creator 10 brings all the tools of the free online PDF24 Tools application as an offline version. All files remain on your computer. As you correctly understood, this is a free program to convert documents or images into PDF files.
Download the program and run it, it will create a virtual printer on your computer, drag the document you want to convert to the point indicated by the program, as you will notice a preview of the document or image you want to convert will be created, tap the printer icon select a printer and your document is ready.
Free PDF24 PDF Creator is a program that creates PDF files from almost all applications. With PDF Creator you can easily convert documents to PDF files, create multiple PDF printers for different tasks, and create profiles for duplicate tasks.
You can also easily link multiple files together, lock or unlock PDF files, convert, split and compress PDF files. The settings can be saved permanently for future use, without having to change them each time. Finally it has options for PDF transmissions, password security, compression analysis, and digital signature.
You will NOT find any other program that does all this and absolutely free, but despite its advantages it did not do well with the recognition of Greek
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This is probably one of the best free office applications that can help us easily convert document files between them, such as DOC, PDF, DOCX, RTF, TXT, HTML and others.
Among the text formats it can convert is the EPUB format, so it enables you to easily create your own e-books. You can also password protect your PDF-docs or choose some additional restrictions such as prohibiting editing, copying or even printing of your document by the recipients and finally mark your files with your personal watermark. Can read documents in formats : PDF, HTML, HTM, MHT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PPT, PPTX, TXT, TIFF, TIF, EPUB, MOBI, FB2, DjVu, XPS.
Can convert documents to formats : PDF, HTML, MHT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, TXT, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, EPUB, MOBI, FB2.
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Soft4Boost Document Converter is an easy-to-use software application designed to view and convert various kinds of documents. Convert documents between all key formats including PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, ODT, HTML, JPEG, TIFF and other formats. Convert your documents to HTML and publish them as a web page.
Now, you can change the design with Soft4Boost document converter according to your needs and convert your documents in just 2 clicks! Also create a password and protect your PDF-docs. Apply restrictions on editing, copying or printing of the document by them
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