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Top Free Online OCR Services
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Written by Jenny Curtis   
Monday, 19 July 2010

 

Online services for optical character recognition (OCR) processing are the easiest and quickest way to convert scanned images of text into editable digital files. Unlike desktop software, online services can be used from any computer with access to the Internet.

So, if you need to process a file, and don’t have reliable OCR software at hand, go ahead and choose one of the free online options.
Here is a list of the most popular free online OCR services:


Free Online OCR
Free Online OCR deserves its place at the top of our list for being one of the quickest and most accurate services available online. Users may convert scanned images into different formats, including DOC, PDF, RTF or TXT. The service supports low resolution documents, such as screenshots and documents received by fax. Pages which have been rotated during the scanning are automatically oriented. Free Online OCR delivers accuracy of over 99.8 percent and features outstanding layout recreation capabilities, preserving the original document formatting. No registration is required.
The service can be accessed at http://www.free-online-ocr.com

Free OCR
Free OCR converts documents of up to 2MB and has the advantage that it can process documents in multiple languages, including Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
Free OCR is available at http://www.free-ocr.com

New OCR

The service can process JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and PDF files in 29 languages. Users are presented with the option to rotate their document before the conversion. The result is displayed in a window on the service website, from where users can copy the text.
New OCR can be accessed at http://www.newocr.com

 

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