Best ocr software for free download

File by OCR automatically names files and places them in a file folder structure based on the document's contents. File by OCR will also allow a user to extract data from a document and place the data in a CSV file for importation into a document management system.
Unlike zonal OCR programs, File by OCR uses Optical Character Recognition on the entire document and then parses the data contents, allowing the user to easily capture data from multi-page documents and documents of various lengths such as sales receipts. 
All processing of documents is done in a batch process after scanning, allowing a user to move on to something else while the OCR process is being carried out.
File by OCR also has the capability to monitor an unlimited number of file folders that contain different document types to be processed, making it ideal for use with a copier that has a scan to file option. The program also supports Twain Scanners and has an easy to use interface that correctly places the file in the correct folder for processing. 
When setting the program up the user should take into consideration that OCR technology is not 100 percent accurate and capture enough data so that they can be assured that if the document is not found on the first search it can be found on a subsequent search, or review the files after they have been processed for any errors in the data capture. If possible the user should consider formatting their documents so that mission critical data is placed on the document in large characters using an OCR font.

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PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) is a Windows application which can directly convert dozens of image formats, such as TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PSD, WMF, EMF, PCX, PIC and so on, into PDF format. Image to PDF can automatically clear and skew-correct B/W images to insure high quality output after conversion. Image to PDF can operate independently of Adobe Acrobat.

PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) Features:
1. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, PCD, PSD, TGA, BMP, DCX, PIC, EMF, WMF, etc. image formats;
2. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support combine multiple directories and images into one PDF file;
3. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) do NOT need Adobe Acrobat software;
4. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support all Windows platforms;
5. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support Multi-page image file (TIFF) to PDF conversion;
6. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support automatic despeckling and skew-correction;
7. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support merge several image files into a single PDF file;
8. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support password protection for PDF files with 40 or 128 bit encryption;
9. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support set file permissions to restrict printing, copying, and future modifications to the document;
10. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support specify any resolution in the generated PDF file;
11. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support specify paper size (paper width and paper height), rotation, margins to the generated PDF file;
12. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support overwrite, append or insert image files to an existing PDF file;
13. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support set information into PDF;
14. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) does generate bookmarks;
15. PDF OCR Compressor (JBIG2, JPEG2000) support PDF spliting and merging;


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Image to PDF Converter is a Windows application which can directly convert dozens of image formats, such as TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PSD, WMF, EMF, PCX, PIC and so on, into PDF format. Image to PDF can automatically clear and skew-correct B/W images to insure high quality output after conversion. Image to PDF can operate independently of Adobe Acrobat.

Image To PDF Converter Features:
1. Image to PDF Converter support TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, PCD, PSD, TGA, BMP, DCX, PIC, EMF, WMF, etc. image formats;
2. Image to PDF Converter support combine multiple directories and images into one PDF file;
3. Image to PDF Converter do NOT need Adobe Acrobat software;
4. Image to PDF Converter support all Windows platforms;
5. Image to PDF Converter support Multi-page image file (TIFF) to PDF conversion;
6. Image to PDF Converter support automatic despeckling and skew-correction;
7. Image to PDF Converter support merge several image files into a single PDF file;
8. Image to PDF Converter support password protection for PDF files with 40 or 128 bit encryption;
9. Image to PDF Converter support set file permissions to restrict printing, copying, and future modifications to the document;
10. Image to PDF Converter support specify any resolution in the generated PDF file;
11. Image to PDF Converter support specify paper size (paper width and paper height), rotation, margins to the generated PDF file;
12. Image to PDF Converter support overwrite, append or insert image files to an existing PDF file;
13. Image to PDF Converter support set information into PDF;
14. Image to PDF Converter does generate bookmarks;
15. Image to PDF Converter support PDF spliting and merging;
16. Image to PDF Converter does merge several PDF files into one PDF file;
17. Image to PDF Converter does burst one multi-page PDF file into several PDF files;
18. Image to PDF Converter does create PDF/A and PDF/X files;
19. Image to PDF Converter does support watermarks;


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ABBYY FineReader is an intelligent, professional level OCR software for creating editable and searchable files from scanned documents, PDF, and digital camera images. ABBYY FineReader gives you the power to unlock the data inside paper-based documents, images, and PDF files to substantially enhance your productivity and efficiency. With its new ADRT™, an Adaptive Document Recognition Technology, FineReader is capable to recognize not only the text and basic layout of document images, but the logical structure of a document across multiple pages.

ABBYY FineReader 9.0 delivers superior accuracy in converting almost any type of documents, including various office documents, tables and spreadsheets, magazine articles, books, and even faxes and digital photographs. The key features of the product include:
· Superior recognition accuracy and layout retention - The new version offers a 35% increase in accuracy, improvement of table detection and signature recognition.
· Re-creation of document logical structure and formatting with ADRT - Get ready-to-use documents with native Microsoft Office formatting elements.
· Digital Camera OCR - Convert snapshots into editable files in one step. The second-generation technology enables automatic line straightening and image resolution correction.
· Unmatched productivity - ABBYY FineReader 9.0 features an intelligent Results-Driven Interface guiding the user to the best OCR result in fewer clicks. With automatic language detection and optimization for multi-core processor machines, performing any OCR task is quicker and easier than ever.
· Accurate, fast and secure PDF conversion
· Instant screenshot OCR - Easily extract text, tables, or images from Web browser pages, flash presentations, Windows Explorer file menus, or error messages. Screenshot Reader is also an ideal “quick OCR” tool when you want to pull small quotes from a PDF or image file.
· Direct export to a variety of applications

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Outlook2NotesContacts is an extremely efficient program that makes Outlook to Lotus Notes Contacts conversion easy and error free.

A user enters a command line argument, then lets the program go to work. Outlook2NoteContacts communicates with your Outlook and Lotus Notes clients, prompting you to log into each program. The program extracts Outlook Contacts and moves them into a Lotus Notes NSF file named NAMES#.NSF. A detailed log file and a screen printout are generated as the program does its work.

Outlook2NotesContacts is "batch enabled" out of the box - no scripting or programming required! To process a single PST, isolate it in its own directory. To process multiple PSTs, group the PSTs in a set of folders. Outlook2NotesContacts automatically recurses through the entire folder structure, starting at the folder specified when the program is started, and processes each PST found sequentially.

What makes this product superior to competing products? It is fast, affordable; written, supported and used by a litigation support technology professional with years of conversion experience.

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Save time preparing high-quality bitonal documents in TIFF/PDF and JBIG2 formats with Binarization Image Processor – software that supports very large image batches.

Created especially for professionals involved with paper and microfilm scanning and digitization, Binarization Image Processor (BIP) is already being successfully used by over 30 different microfilm bureaus in New Zealand, Australia, the US, the UK and Canada.

BIP's use of cutting-edge techniques including dynamic thresholding, local area adaptive binarization and OCR preparation thresholding to binarize images is what sets it apart from the rest of the competition.

Unlike many of the other batch image converters, BIP offers a manual review mode that gives users the ability to scan through the resulting bitonal images and improve output image quality manually after automatic batch processing is complete.

BIP automatically saves all changes eliminating the need to perform redundant actions like confirming image saves. Elimination of this redundancy alone generates a time savings of up to 90%.

BIP also allows users to set binarization parameters visually using trial images from the batch.

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TextGRAB SDK is a COM library that allows screen text capture in Windows applications.

You can use it to capture text from any application that doesn't provide communication API's in order to feed another program. You can capture text from any part of any window including: status bar messages, Windows error messages and more, list controls, list views, menus, any custom controls, etc.

TextGRAB SDK is not an OCR based solution. Which makes it work faster than OCR based solution and allows capture text even if some custom fonts are used.

TextGRAB SDK can be used in different types of software like dictionaries, translation tools, organizer applications, etc.


Features:
* Capture text from rectangle
* Capture word from point
* Capture sentence from point
* Capture all text from scrollable windows
* Capture whole window
* Interactive text capture (user can select area or point on screen and capture text from it)
* Unicode support
* Support different popular applications such as Office applications, internet browsers, email and instant messaging applications, etc.
* Easy to integrate to your application
* Capture font information (face, size and color)
* Capture passwords hidden behind asterisks


Limitations: TextGRAB SDK can not capture text from PDF.

Supported OS: Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Server 2003/Windows Vista

Download Trial: http://www.renovation-software.com/files/tgsdk/TextGRAB-SDK-2.1-setup.zip

Trial includes:
* TextGRAB SDK
* API documentation
* Demo applications with sourcecode (C++, C#, VB.NET, VB 6.0, Delphi)

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ConnectCode CMC7 is a Magnetic Ink Character Recognition font based on the CMC-7 (ISO 1004) industry standard. This is a widely accepted standard throughout Europe, South America and many other countries. The character set of this standard comprise of ten numbers (0..9), five special symbols and twenty-six letters. All the four heights specified in the ISO 1004 specifications are supported.

The numbers typically found on the bottom of a check comprising of the check number, sort number and account number are usually printed in magnetic ink for use in MICR.

MICR is a character recognition system that is widely used in the banking industry for cheque processing. It involves using a stylized font and magnetic ink to print characters in a document. When this document needs to be decoded, it passes through a special machine or equipment, which magnetizes the ink and then translates the magnetic information into characters. If required, the same information in the document can also be read optically through OCR. Over the years, MICR has been proven to be a secure and high performance mechanism for processing information.



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Image2PDF Converter is an application program based on Windows platform, which can directly convert more dozens of image formats, such as TIF, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PSD, WMF, EMF, PDF, PCX, PIC and so on, into PDF format, can support manifold conversion way, and automatically clear and skew-correct by adopting special technique for B/W images, to insure display effect of high quality after conversion.
Image2PDF Converter can operate independently on Adobe Acrobat, in faster processing speed.
We once have an example of testing, in which, under Windows 2000 Pro, CPU Celeron400 / memory 256M, 5 minutes and 30 seconds was needed to convert 3042 images, totally 108 MB, in 200 directories, into one file.
If your application program doesn't require OCR (Optical Character Recognition) function, this software provides a kind of very convenient way to compose electronic books so that users can very conveniently issue it to Web. You can directly scan paper documents into image files by scanner, convert them into PDF file by Image2PDF. Without complicated procedure and operation, it will be very simple to compose electronic books.

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This package includes easy to install executable files for most TrueType versions of Code 39, Extended Code 39, GS1-128, UPCa, UPCe, EAN, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, Postnet, Planet, MICR E-13B, CMC-7, OCR-A, OCR-B and OneCode font packages. The bar code installation files also include examples for use in Microsoft Access, Excel and Word. Files are delivered in a ZIP file that is about 4-5MB in size. Both Windows and Macintosh TrueType formats are provided.

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Music notating software with a difference. Its design philosophy is simply to replace pen and paper: it leaves you in complete command of the whole score-writing process and layout. For total flexibility and control it allows you to put whatever you want wherever you want it - it does not impose any standards of its own, so if what you write is particular to you then fine. In fact think of it as a word-processor for music. The full range of facilities are there from clefs to ending barlines. It covers general text (drop text anywhere you want it), lyrics, 190+ miscellaneous symbols (just place on the paper as required), many types of line and even a shape tool should you want it, plus headers and footers and of course transposition, playback, part extraction, quarter tones, auto bar numbering and Midi file production. And many others! Inkeeping with the philosophy suggested by the program's title it can create high resolution pictures of any part of the page for transferring very quickly to a word-processor. The program is very intuitive and there is also a wealth of help with the program: four user levels give decreasing amounts of help as you move yourself up; a built-in Tutorial which is rather fun(!); a "What's this for?" button on every control; a Tip of the Day and the strongly indexed Help file is organised as the answers to over 300 "How do I..." questions. There is also an indexed, coloured 200 page indexed illustrated manual supplied as PDF file. Some types customers are present in significant numbers so special provision has been made for ABC format import and export and Great Highland Bagpipe notation. However it's just as happy with an opera or concerto. So flexible is the program that some customers actually earn their living as copyists using only Music Publisher. Finally, and not least, registered customers have free updates to the latest version of Music Publisher via the web site www.muspub.com.

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IDAutomation's Optical Character Recognition fonts (OCR-A and OCR-B) were created from the latest ANSI and ISO specifications and include the Euro symbol. Also included in this package is additional characters to comply with OCR-B1 Eurobanking and OCR-A1 Eurobanking specifications. Furthermore, the OCR A font complies with ECMA-11 norm and can be used on accept giro forms. TrueType, OpenType, PCL laserjet soft fonts and PostScript font versions are included for support of Windows, Pocket PC, Macintosh, UNIX and Linux.

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The first Java Flash captcha application plug-in jfCAPTCHA that prevents automatic registration, Flash prevents any possibility for OCR programs to extract validation text.

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The IDAutomation PostNet and OneCode Barcode Font Advantage Package includes all of the fonts to support USPS bar codes including Postnet, Code 128, Planet, OCR-A and the new OneCode Solution 4-State Customer Barcode. Contains several font versions in many font formats (including TrueType, PostScript, OpenType and PCL) for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and a variety of other operating systems. The download includes examples for Crystal Reports, OpenOffice Calc, Microsoft Excel, Word and Access. In addition, over 30 font tools and encoders are available for easy integration into many different applications.

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With xtelsio CTI Client, you can control your phone communication simply by mouse click. Everything what you still need for it, is a TAPI-capable phone or phone system, an Asterisk PBX, an ISDN card or in simplest case a modem. With ISDN card and headset xtelsio turns your PC into a simple software telephone. +++ You can integrate your existing address information, for example the contacts of Outlook, ACT! and Lotus Notes, CSV files, Access databases (via ODBC) or you can read in LDAP directories. If a contact was found for an incoming call, you can open it in the original application (for example ACT! or Outlook) with one mouse click. +++ xtelsio CTI Client offers an integrated TAPI connector for Skype - also accessible by other TAPI applications. +++ You can install and activate an Outlook PlugIn for more comfortable call handling. +++ You can integrate an ActiveX Control in Access forms or other applications. +++ It's possible to dial telephone numbers from within other applications by hotkey or mouse click, to search telephone numbers in other applications, to transfer telephone numbers or record IDs into other applications, to create Word documents with address data, to set call appointments, to enter call notes and some more.

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Typical OCR software can handle only binary images with black pixels representing text and white pixels representing background. It isn't unusual in modern documents to have inverted text zones and normal text zones within the same document.


The document structure analysis and character recognition are usually done in several phases:
scanning
thresholding
skew detection and correction
despeckle or speckle removal
line removal
border removal
detection of preprinted elements (like boxes)
page orientation detection and correction
layout analysis
classification
character recognition (normal and inverse)

Each step must be completed well enough for the performance of the sequence and result to be successful. ZoneHelper detects and automatically converts inverted text zones and change white-on-black text to normal black-on-white text.
ZoneHelper expects as input a monochrome image.

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