2013
Free Online OCR - convert scanned PDF and images to Word, JPEG to Word
by cascamorto & 1 otherFree Online OCR
Use Optical Character Recognition software
without installation on your computer. Recognize text and characters from PDF scanned documents (including multipage files), photographs and digital camera captured images. Free Online OCR service supports 32 recognition languages.
Convert scanned PDF to Word, Txt, Rtf
Extract text from image (JPG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, GIF) and convert into editable Word, Text, Excel, PDF, Html output formats.
Converted documents look exactly like the original - tables, columns and graphics.
Free
OnlineOCR.net is a free service in a "Guest mode" (without registration) that allows you to convert 15 images per hour.
2009
Free online OCR
by cascamorto & 10 othersFree-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this to perform OCR on any image you supply.
This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not need your email address.
Just upload your image files. Free-OCR takes either PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF or BMP format.
2006
SourceForge.net: Tesseract OCR
by parmentierf (via)A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005.
SimpleOCR - the only royalty free OCR engine!
by parmentierf & 4 others (via)Use SimpleOCR to add accurate character recognition capabilities to your custom software without the complexity and expense of runtime licensing. The SimpleOCR freeware demonstrates the power of our engine and is the only OCR application that is completely free.
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