There is support for a massive 33 languages and although the maximum file size is limited to 10MB, it should be enough for most general use. I2OCR is a free and unlimited use online OCR conversion service from that accepts input from images of the TIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PBM, PGM and PPM formats. Blue is suspect words, red is words not found in the program’s dictionary etc, and each of these words can be checked with a drop down list of alternatives offered. After the character recognition has completed, the resulting text will display in the lower window with colored words to inform you of potential issues with the spelling. Several pages can be added by clicking on the Add Page button and converted using Convert to text. Then choose 1 of the 4 languages for your profile and click Select. After install, when you run SimpleOCR for the first time make sure to select the top “Machine Print” option which is free, the bottom option is a 14 day demo of the more advanced software. The resulting text can be saved as a standard text file or Word document. The SimpleOCR software is free for personal, educational and commercial use and accepts input from a scanner, JPG, BMP and multiple page TIFF images.

FreeOCR is also allowed to be used for commercial as well as personal use.

NET Framework v2 is required for XP users. FreeOCR works on Windows XP to Windows 8, install of the. Pay attention during install as the program uses Install Manager to offer you a few bits of adware.

You can also select specific parts of the input document for conversion which is useful for multiple blocks or columns of text and the output can be exported directly to Word or as a Rich text format. It can accept input directly from a scanner, PDF file and several different types of image formats including multi page TIFF files while supporting conversion using 11 different languages. FreeOCR is an OCR program based on the open source Tesseract engine which is maintained by Google and considered to be very accurate.

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