Freeware for Windows

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Softi Free OCR is a complete scan and OCR software. It is very simple to use and supports multipage TIFF, Adobe PDF and fax documents. It has TWAIN and WIA scanning. Program based on OCR PDF engine known as Tesseract. The Tesseract is an open source project by Google, formerly developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories.

• PDF button to fast open and OCR scanned PDF files.
• Images from a scanned document can be selected and placed on the clipboard.
• Scans can be cropped before Optical Character Recognition process.
• Added button to remove line breaks from the recognized text.
• Fixed some bugs causing FreeOCR to crash when opening PNG files.
• Improved user graphic interface.
• Works with MS Windows 2000, 2003, XP and Vista.
• Minimum hardware requiment: P200, 256 MB RAM, SVGA.

Includes scanning engine requires images at a resolution of 200 dpi or greater. It may not reading PC screenshots which are only about 72 dpi. For best results scan at 300 dpi in greyscale.

FreeOCR for scanned PDF is freeware, for commercial use too. The Tesseract OCR engine is under open source Apache V2.0 license.

It requires the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0.

Producer (Softi Software) / Get it: download
Size: 167 KB / Licence: Freeware

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