Free OCR Software

You can easily convert scanned documents, PDFs and Tiff files to a format when it can be edited. FreeOCR is a great Optical Character Recognition alternative to expensive alternatives like Adobe Acrobat Professional. To enable scanning of images you will need a desktop scanner that uses Twain or WIA compatible scanning drivers. FreeOCR requires the .Net Framework V2.0 from Microsoft. If you don’t have it installed then the FreeOCR installer will automatically download this for you.

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License: Freeware

Requirements: Windows

Why you need this software: Quickly and easily convert PDF, Tiff and scanned images to text so you can edit them like normal documents.
Website: http://paperfile.net/

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