OCR makes short work of digitizing your docs Jul 22, 2013 4:15 AM (These tools were recently featured here individually. In this article our reviewer surveys and compares them as a group.) The file cabinet looms large in the office, yet it guards its secrets jealously...even from you. It's time to convert those papers to space-saving, easy-to-find digital documents. For that, you need a scanner to turn them into digital images and an Optical Character Recognition program to convert those images into editable and searchable documents. I took four of the latest OCR programs and a free online OCR service for a test spin. All of them work to varying degrees.
To test the programs, I ran 22 varied and not particularly clean scans of documents--including one hand-written note--through four OCR programs and one free service. I looked for accuracy in text recognition, image extraction, and the ability to recreate them in a Word document. In addition, I processed 264 separate scans from a yearbook for output as a searchable PDF.
Note: Clicking the linked name of each tool in the article will take you to its individual review page where you can use the "Download Now" buttons.
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