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OCR Tools

5 Best Free and Open Source OCR Screen Capture Tools

September 15, 2022 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images. We only feature open source software here.

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12 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools

November 27, 2021 Steve Emms Graphics, Software, Utilities

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents.

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Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs

April 27, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Office, Reviews, Utilities

OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.

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Excellent Utilities: Paperwork – personal document manager

April 26, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Paperwork is designed to simplify the management of your paperwork. The software lets you scan or import your documents, and quickly find what you want, wrapped together in a GTK interface.

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5 Excellent Free OCR Systems

March 12, 2019 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents. OCR software is able to recognise the difference between characters and images, and between characters themselves.

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