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ABBYY FineReader Online for free OCR!

Posted by dvanarsd on October 24, 2009

The Boreham Library uses ABBYY FineReader software for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert text in pictures into text that computers can use as real text.

MakeUseOf has a post about ABBYY FineReader Online.

Features:

  • Online image text extraction tool.
  • Lets you process 50 pages a day for free.
  • Supported input image formats: BMP, PCX, DCX, JPEG/JPEG, PNG and TIFF/TIF.
  • Supported output file formats: Microsoft Word, Excel, RTF, and TXT and PDF.
  • The file must not be larger than 10 MB.
  • Multilingual recognition: Russian, English, German and French.
  • Simple and clutter free design.

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