Question: I often work with long text documents that have clearly been scanned from a book, and it’s really inconvenient to work with them as images. Is it possible to make a PDF text-searchable? Answer: You can easily make PDFs …
OCR Scanning Software
Question: What is the best OCR scanning software? Answer: There are a lot of different OCR programs available online, and the best one for you depends on the purposes for which you will be using it. Based on that, you …
Best Freeware for OCR Conversion
Question: Where can I find the best freeware for OCR conversion? Answer: If you’re looking for OCR conversion freeware, you probably have some image files that you want to convert to text. This is a common problem, because all scanned …
Scanned Documents
Question: I have a bunch of scanned documents on my computer, but I really can’t do anything with them because the files are too big, and the computer can’t recognize the text anyway, so they are pretty useless to me …
Latest OCR Software
Question: What features distinguish the latest OCR software from older models? Do these differences even matter? Answer: It depends on what you want to do. For many purposes, it doesn’t matter if you are using an OCR tool that was …
Free OCR Scan
Question: The internet is full of free OCR scan downloads. Are any of them reliable, and are there any advantages to purchasing software as opposed to using free OCR scan software? Answer: Free OCR scan software can be a good …
Converting PDF to txt
Question: I’m looking for a way of converting PDF to txt so that I can edit the text contained within my PDF files. Can you recommend software to do this? Answer: OCR, or optical character recognition, is the best way …
Scanner OCR PDF
Question: Can I get my scanner to OCR my files for me? Is there any way for it to output PDF instead of TIFF? Answer: The problem with files when they come out of a scanner is that they are …
OCR Language
Question: Can OCR identify language characters out of context, or are there different OCR programs for different languages? Do I have to buy two separate programs if I work in English and Spanish, or can I use one for both? …
Document Automation Solutions
Question: My office processes a lot of forms and documents. Normally, someone has to go through all of the information and type it into a spreadsheet by hand. This is really tedious and time consuming, and we frequently end up …