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ABBYY FineReader is an optical character recognition (OCR) software that provides unmatched text recognition accuracy and conversion capabilities, virtually eliminating retyping and reformatting of documents. Intuitive use and one-click automated tasks let you do more in fewer steps. Up to 190 languages are supported for text recognition — more than any other OCR software in this market.

Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.

gImageReader is a simple Gtk front-end to tesseract. Features include: - Automatic page layout detection - User can manually define and adjust recognition regions - Import images from disk, scanning devices, clipboard and screenshots - Supports multipage PDF documents - Recognized text displayed directly next to the image - Basic editing of output text, including search/replace and removing line breaks - Spellchecking for output text (if corresponding dictionary installed)

ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly scans, translates and saves your chosen text or QR-codes from virtually any printed material.

Free Online OCR is a software that allows you to convert scanned PDF and images into editable Word, Text, Excel output formats.

Prizmo 2 is a revolutionary scanning application with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in over 40 languages with powerful editing capability, text-to-speech, and iCloud support.

Extract & translate text from images/videos/PDF on any website.

Powerful OCR technology makes OmniPage 17 the world’s best – and most accurate – solution for repurposing, editing, sorting, searching and sharing converted documents in any format you choose.

CuneiForm (OpenOCR) is a text recognition software for printed templates. Manuscripts or PDF-files, the program can not recognize, however, but table structures. The language-model is applicable for 20 languages, and the results can be used as HTML, RTF or ASCII text to save, or export directly to Word or Excel. These fonts are, and the structure of the document unchanged. CuneiForm has only recently made an open source software. It was developed by the Russian company Cognitive Technologies and means something like cuneiform (from the English cuneiform = wedge-shaped). »

Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) is a Microsoft Office application that supports editing documents scanned by Microsoft Office Document Scanning. It was first introduced in Microsoft Office XP and is included in later Office versions including Office 2007. It is no longer available in Office 2010. MODI allows users to Scan documents, recognize images using OCR, view a scanned document and Annotate scanned documents including using ink on a Tablet PC. (more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Document_Imaging ) »

img2txt.com is an online OCR service that allows you to get text from a picture or scanned page.

Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply.

OCRFeeder is a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system.

WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.