OCR software
Thread poster: isabelid
isabelid
isabelid
United States
English to Spanish
Apr 6, 2019

Could you please recommend any OCR software? I see some options for free...are those any good? Any info or suggestions are very appreciated! Thank you in advance,
Isabel


 
DZiW (X)
DZiW (X)
Ukraine
English to Russian
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https://www.abbyy.com/en-eu/finereader/ Apr 6, 2019

I prefer working with editable documents only, yet in the case of emergency and with complicated layouts I use a "trained" ABBYY FineReader, which can pre-process the docs and gives better--more clean--results than Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, let alone on-... See more
I prefer working with editable documents only, yet in the case of emergency and with complicated layouts I use a "trained" ABBYY FineReader, which can pre-process the docs and gives better--more clean--results than Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, let alone on-line (mind the NDA!) converters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_optical_character_recognition_software

Of course, you can try several apps to come to the conclusion. However, any OCR still requires re/double-checking, that's why, I let my client know and charge more for such jobs.

[Edited at 2019-04-06 04:06 GMT]
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Tom in London
Oleksandr Ivanov
Dan Lucas
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:59
Member (2008)
Italian to English
ABBYY Apr 6, 2019

Yes . ABBYY is good (but don't expect miracles)

https://www.abbyy.com/en-gb/finereader/


Kevin Fulton
Hedwig Spitzer (X)
 
isabelid
isabelid
United States
English to Spanish
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Thanks Apr 7, 2019

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