SimpleOCR

Filed under: Photo, Text, Utilities, Windows, Office, Productivity, Freeware, Open Source, Imaging Tips

So, simple American boy meets an attractive American flatbed scanner. It is a story we have all heard a hundred times, right? What happens in the story is the boy falls in love with the scanner, pledges it all his paper and digital bliss for as long as the scanners warranty is good. So he takes the scanner home, carries it over the threshold, and plugs it into the wall and into the back of his computer. A match made in NewEgg? The boy cares for the scanner, gets the latest drivers, makes sure he buys the best high speed shielded USB cable, and everything is peachy. Wait, what, no OCR software? Why wasn't that in the prenup? Where's my PaperPort disc? "I don't have Textbridge" he thinks, "maybe I was getting into this a little too fast, I mean I didn't even read the quick-start manual!"

Never fear, SimpleOCR is here. Available for free download, SimpleOCR is a great addition or even replacement for your OCR software. It is especially handy for those who do not have a good OCR software with which to recognize text from scanned documents. It has a fairly solid accuracy ratio, and learns as you go. Give it a shot! I use it at work right now, and it seems to do a bit better than others I have tried.

SimpleOCR originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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