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Looking for a Good Free OCR

01/08/2015 6:59 AM

Hello

I am looking for a free OCR software.
I have many scanned files which are very large (6Mbyte/page, up to 230Mbytes)and need to compress them to a more suitable size.
Thanks for your reply, and happy New Year.

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01/08/2015 7:17 AM

See http://download.cnet.com/topics/ocr

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01/08/2015 9:54 AM

I'm also looking for a good free OCR but the reviews on that one are not good!
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Re: Loooking for a Good Free OCR

01/08/2015 11:14 AM

I'm reminded of the phrase, you get what you pay for.

You can find reviews on OCR. Then you can do this.

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Re: Looking for a Good Free OCR

01/09/2015 8:35 AM

Why not simply convert to .pdf files with many free and good .pdf softwares? That will leave them fully readable and printable but far smaller data wise.....

You will have to try a few to see which ones work best for you, my thoughts are with Office Libre....a free to download and use software suite.

Using OCR means that you have to print them first.....most OCR software is not good with pictures and illustrations either....

Scan directly into .pdf, often the scanner has free software to do this for you on a CD. Canon Scanner/printers for example....

Tell us how you get on.

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01/09/2015 1:21 PM

I'm looking for a free OCR too, but with a different qualification--I want to keep the original formatting. Not many will do that. I have found Cuneiform and Tesseract, but have not been able to get either to work--they both seem to need a third party GUI.

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