Free download SimpleOCR

SimpleOCR

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Convert your scanned images to text files or Word documents with SimpleOCR--the only OCR (Optical
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User rating
5.1/10
39 votes
License
Freeware
OS
Windows
Developer
ScanStore
Version
3
Language
English
Release date
25 December 2005

Publisher's description

Convert your scanned images to text files or Word documents with SimpleOCR--the only OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application that is completly free. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free developer toolkit (aka SDK or API) that you may use to add OCR to your custom software application.
SimpleOCR features include TWAIN scanning, ability to manually specify text and image zones, English, French and Dutch dictionaries, interactive correction with suggestions from dictionary, output to plain text or RTF (MS Word) formats and more. It provides all of the most commonly used OCR features and competitive recognition rates for many types of documents. If you just need to convert a few documents to text to save retyping, SimpleOCR will save you hours of time without the $75-$700 cost.
Developers can use the SimpleOCR API to add OCR capabilities to their custom software. If your application deals with document images, SimpleOCR will let you add full-text searching or automate the indexing process with zone OCR. SimpleOCR SDK is royalty-free, so it won't increase the per-license cost of your software. You won't find that deal anywhere else!
A 15-day demo of Charactell's Softwriting handprint recognition engine is also included. Machine print recognition has no limitations or advertisements.

User comments

mugface
It`s actually quite good if you take the picture with a camera that has a flashlight and convert it to .ttf file. The only mistakes that the program makes that way may be in the beginning of each line, which makes it easy to correct, if needed.
I`d say its perfect for a freeware!
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Gerbert
This is the worst piece of software I`ve ever seen. Total piece of crap - dont waste your time!!!
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Tony
Crap.
Too many errors in the text to be of any use.
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wiz
This will only read tiff, jpgs and bitmaps, NOT pdfs. Very disappointing.
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Melanie
What a piece of crap!! It didn`t even recognize half of the words and I had to re-type! Don`t even bother with this unless you have the time to go through making the corrections!
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San
Not bad for free. It needs a little help with paragraph breaks and formatting but it got most of the text.
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Tandy
Seems like a good straight forward product. Perfect for what my daughter needed at this point. Not completely user intuitive, but still simple for it`s capabilities
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AT
I agree that watching the Demo is a MUST for this software.
Worked perfectly for me, even though the document was kinda sideways in the scanner and the resolution wasn`t terrific. I did have my scanner set "black text" - perhaps that helped.

Perfect for my needs.
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iknow22
works well, but make sure you watch the DEMO!
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Tijn
Looks fine but doesnot work for me.... Pics must be EXTREMELY high res to make is work
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Titas
Piece of crap.
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sourabh
this is simple and useful
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