Free OCR Software to Extract Text from Images & Scanned Paper Document

Since so many scanners these days come as part of an all-in-one printer/scanner/copier combo, avoiding the installation of gigantic, auto-starting, self-promoting printer drivers is something we should all strive for. If you have a scanner and want to avoid retyping your documents, Freemore OCR is a great alternative. If you need to occasionally scanned images, faxes, screenshots, PDF documents and eBooks to text, Freemore OCR also works out. It is Optical Character Recognition freeware that supports scanning from most Twain scanners and can also open all PDF and image files. Your image or PDF shows up in the left window, and your text is ready to edit or copy in the right. It outputs plain text and can export directly to TXT and Microsoft Word format.

OCR - Extract Text from Image

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the process of converting a bitmap image of text into text that can be selected, copied and searched by some text editing software. Freemore OCR helps extract text from scanned documents (including multipage files), photographs and digital camera captured images that cannot be copied or printed easily to TXT/MS Word for editing with OCR technology. Saving time on retyping any text and finding back the documents you archived!

Scanner Direct Connection

Freemore OCR can be connected with multiple types of scanners. This feature enables you to scan paper documents and then OCR text directly from scanned images to increase the productivity and unleash the power of your document. Now you can turn all your paper documents into editable and searchable electronic documents and save them in the format of your choice.

Accurate OCR Conversion

Based on the revolutionary OCR technology, Freemore OCR makes the OCR conversion achieving 98% accuracy. Of course, the accuracy of OCR depends upon the quality of the original document and printed text quality. The high accuracy in recognizing text on document of sophisticated layout produces more efficient document management.

Edit Text

Freemore OCR is designed with a text editor which allows you to edit the OCR result text without MS Word. In text window, you are allowed to add or correct text. In addition, you can: Clear - clear text window to remove the previously converted contents; Remove - remove line breaks; Copy - copy text to clipboard and paste to other application for editing; Export - export text into MS word, and so on. Freemore OCR saves you much time and money by sharing electronic documents instead of stacks of paper files.

Fast OCR

Freemore OCR is pretty fast to extract text out of images just with one simple click. It processes documents instantly in real time, avoids heavy retyping work to get editable text, and actually lightens the intensity of labor. The side-by-side Image and Text comparable interface also helps a lot on editing.

Preview PDF & Image

The inbuilt independent and lean viewer allows you to open, view, and print PDF documents in an embedded or stand-alone, individually configurable, secure PDF viewing control. The PDF previewer enables you to zoom in/out and Fit Width/Height/Page or switch between pages with First, Previous, Next & Last buttons to preview PDF document. In image viewer window, you can use Zoom in/out, Fit Width/Page and 100% as needed for better image preview. It is generally suitable for use in all corporate areas to preserve memory resources, reduce load times and minimize security risks.

Encrypt & Decrypt with Security Options

Freemore OCR provides a password protection function for users to add password to PDF files to control who has access to your PDF file. The protection encrypts the contents of the PDF so it can't be previewed, printed or indexed, then it applies a password. On contrary, you can remove the password added to unlock PDF file to modify, print or copy secured files.

Digitally Sign a PDF File

The digital signature tool helps apply digital signatures to pivotal business PDF documents to identify and authenticate the originator of the information or verify that information has not been altered after it is signed.

View PDF Properties

The Document Properties dialog box allows you to add some metadata to your PDF file, like Title, Author, Subject & Keywords and you may customize the Name and Value. It shows the security status and fonts of your PDF. You may change how a PDF file is displayed (view layout) with options like Navigation tab, Magnification, Page layout & set the starting page. In this way, it is useful to complete your PDF properties and identify your PDF document in search results.

Support Many Formats

All widely usable image formats including JPG/JPEG, TIF, TIFF, BMP, GIF, PNG, EMF, WMF, JPE, ICO, JFIF, PCX, PSD, PCD, TGA and many more are supported by this free JPG to PDF converter software. Any images can be converted to professional PDF files.

Office-Style Ribbon Interface

Freemore OCR offers a Microsoft Office-style Ribbon interface. Tasks and tools are separated into tabs, grouped by functionality, and represented graphically with easy-to-understand text labels, providing an immediately familiar user interface that won't leave you searching for help. There is no technical knowledge needed, even beginners can do the conversion without troubles.

100% Free, Safe & No Adobe Needed

Freemore OCR is totally free to use. It contains no adware, spyware or any other malicious components. It's 100% clean and reliable to install and run. Most importantly, it is standalone software, Adobe Acrobat Reader or any other third party software is not required. You don't need to install any version of Adobe Acrobat to perform all the operations.

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