OCR Opinions invited
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OCR is not always "perfect" (not even paid-for versions), but it's a LOT better than the stuff I've been yearning for since the '90s: Raster-to-Vector conversion. There are some, mostly not-free, but none (not even the most expensive) give even moderately usuable results. In every single case I've found that the manual cleanup after the "conversion" takes more time than to simply redraw the entire thing manually.
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While evaluating many different OCR SDK's, I found most of the free OCR SDK's aren't very accurate. You may try open source OCR SDK Tesseract. http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
Change is a pattern of life.
I've worked with over 20 different OCRs over the last 15 years, most of them commerical OEM bits. Tesseract is an excellent choice, particularly being free. It is very fast and very accurate on good quality images. Scanned documents and smaller fonts tend to cause Tess to produce very poor results, but your typical font sizes and resolution above 72dpi Tesseract is my first go-to. The only OCR SDKs I've found better you paid for. You paid a lot. The problem I last left with Tesseract was the ability to extract multiple choices for glyphs. On both Ubuntu and Windows, 64bit and 32bit, the software has some serious crash problems using that API. I think that had I continued pinging the forum that problem would have eventually been resolved. The forum can be helpful if you have a few days to wait for the answer. You want a Free OCR SDK?? Tesseract is the answer.
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While evaluating many different OCR SDK's, I found most of the free OCR SDK's aren't very accurate. You may try open source OCR SDK Tesseract. http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
Change is a pattern of life.
This is also true of some of the paid for products.
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Are these really free ?
yes is free 2 links that works or googling search --> ocr online check it out!!! http://www.free-ocr.com/ http://www.newocr.com/[^]
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If this is a one off, you can go with the 30 days trial of Acrobat Pro, otherwise, the open source alternatives given previously will be fine.
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Not quite free, but usually not an issue in a Windows shop is Office`s built-in OCR library -> MODI It's pretty accurate although it tends to leak memory. Last project we needed OCR, we replaced it with Tesseract and the accuracy was similar.
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Not quite free, but usually not an issue in a Windows shop is Office`s built-in OCR library -> MODI It's pretty accurate although it tends to leak memory. Last project we needed OCR, we replaced it with Tesseract and the accuracy was similar.
Office Challenged here. What is this thing you have described ? Where do I click ?
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Not quite free, but usually not an issue in a Windows shop is Office`s built-in OCR library -> MODI It's pretty accurate although it tends to leak memory. Last project we needed OCR, we replaced it with Tesseract and the accuracy was similar.
MODI (which was last included in Office 2007) can be downloaded free - it is included with SharePoint Designer 2007 which needs no Office license.
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MODI (which was last included in Office 2007) can be downloaded free - it is included with SharePoint Designer 2007 which needs no Office license.
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Thank you everyone who offered suggestions. -- COMPENDIUM -- Online OCR[^] Google Docs[^] Free OCR[^] Cuneiform OpenOCR[^] MODI by Microsoft[^] Simple OCR[^] Tesseract[^]