What is OCR (optical character recognition)?
- OCR technology is used to translate typed,handwritten printed text hardcopy or scanned image material into editable text softcopy.
It is used to convert paper books and documents into electronic files, for instance, to computerize an old record-keeping system in an office.
Advantages Of OCR:
1.Don’t need to retype whole document Only need to Review weather OCR generated document is correct or not.
2.Scanned document can be used as backup if you don’t need to edit the text but Size of image is much larger then Typed Document.By OCR we can save Disk Space.
for example you lost the document from your system and you have hardcopy, don’t type whole document again use scanner and OCR software to create document.
Free and Efficient OCR program?
1.Microsoft Document Imaging
2.HP OCR engine Come with HP scanner Software.
3.freeOCR
4.GOCR
5.Chitrankan : Hindi OCR.
Commercial OCR:
1. ABBYY fine reader
2. nuance omnipage
3. readIRIS
Online OCR
Here most effective and efficient FREE OCR that recognize text and keep unrecognized text as image is OCR software come with HP printer.
Open HP Solution Center and Click on scan documents.
Select Save to file and then select Searchable PDF or Word (rtf document) .
Scan the hardcopy and you will get the softcopy!
