4 Free OCR software tools to convert images into text

OCR is Optical Character recognition , this is one of the field where millions of dollars are shed on reserch and development. Many big companies like Google , HP ,Xerox are spending time and money on this technology. Most of the free OCR softwares are based on commonly available free OCR engines such as Tesseract which was developed by HP initialy. There are few free OCR softwares available for Windows and there are some Online OCR service available where you can upload your image and it will convert it into text format and allow you to download.

Features of OCR software

Most of the free OCR software supports JPEG, TIFF, GIF and BMP formats
Converted file can be saved in formats such as PDF , HTML and TXT
Multi language support

Free OCR Software tools available

Simple OCR
Top OCR
p2escan (Trail ware)
Free ocr Online
Online OCR (Online)

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