Convert Photo to Text with Free OCR

[BlaZe]

FreeOCR

FreeOCR is a scan & OCR program including the Tesseract free ocr engine also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows installer and It is very simple to use and supports multi-page tiff?s, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff?s which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read .It now has Twain scanning.
The Tesseract free OCR engine is an open source product released by Google. It was developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories between 1985 and 1995. In 1995 it was one of the top 3 performers at the OCR accuracy contest organized by University of Nevada in Las Vegas. The Tesseract engine source code is now maintained by Google and the project can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
Free OCR is freeware and you can do what you like with it including commercial use. The included Tesseract free OCR engine is distributed under the Apache V2.0 license.



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BlaZe Reviewed by BlaZe on 21st Oct 2009. Convert Photo to Text with Free OCR FreeOCR FreeOCR is a scan & OCR program including the Tesseract free ocr engine also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows installer and It is very simple to use and supports multi-page tiff?s, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff?s which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read .It now has Twain scanning. The Tesseract free OCR engine is an open source product released by Google. It was developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories between 1985 and Rating: 5

[Chri5]

I cant find the right download link

[BlaZe]

Sorry. My Bad
The time I posted it, they were allowing download of their V2. Now they'll release V3 sooner and then it'll be available for download
Till then, theres this alternative
Tesseract OCR