DOWNLOADS: CuneiFormĬuneiForm is a quick and user-friendly tool whose function is to act as an OCR software, enabling to turn scanned documents into editable text in just a few clicks. Use without installation and registration is possible.
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The following figure shows an example of OCR with OCR.Space.Įxtract text from (multipage) PDF and images (JPG, BMP, TIFF, GIF) up to 15 MB supporting 46 languages and convert into editable Word, Excel and Text output formats. It covers 24 languages, the images/PDF should not be larger than 6144 KB and it can only process printed documents.
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The OCR software takes a JPG, PNG or PDF (PDF OCR with full support for multi-page documents and multi-column text). The Online OCR service is free to use, no registration is needed.
It uses state-of-the-art modern OCR software. The OCR.Space Online OCR service converts scans or (smartphone) images of text documents into editable files by using OCR technologies. They have problems with the recognition of handwritten and typewritten reports and therefore they are not adequate for most historical climate data digitization. While the Microsoft Document Imaging tool is limited to 4 languages (English, French, German, and Italian), the Adobe Acrobat tool covers 42 languages. These implemented tools are of low cost, but also low accuracy. for handwritten/typewritten/low quality scans: not useful.OCR to text files (via batch processing only).
Apart from those, there are also a couple of online tools and free software. The search for suitable and appropriate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools to automatically recognize scripts from scanned records, one often comes across Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) tool, Adobe Acrobat and the non-free software Omnipage or Abbyy FineReader.