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Best Ocr Reader For Mac

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I have written before about the benefits of a paperless office, the zen feeling of being able to walk into the room and not somersault headfirst over a stack of paper and break your neck. But when you have reams of paper, how do you get all of that printed text converted into something that a digital program will be able to recognize and index? Yes, that’s right, you use an OCR service or app.

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1. FreeOCR

We start with software, entitled rather imaginatively, “FreeOCR”. It’s a Windows-only app, which works on all PC’s running XP and upwards (although if you are using XP, you will need to install an extra part).

FreeOCR works for TWAIN scanners, PDF files, and TIFF images, and outputs the text into a Microsoft Word file. To use this app, you will also need to download the Google Open Source Tesseract OCR engine.

2. FreeOCR to Word

This is the one I liked the most as it accurately transcribed what I had given it. The company behind the app promises 99.8% accuracy, and the app also retains the original formatting. As the title implies, the text and formatting are transferred into an editable Word document, but text (.txt) files are also possible.

It recognizes all of the main image formats, as well as Photoshop files. It’s just a shame though that all of these great apps are Windows-only. Where’s the love for Mac and Linux owners?

3. gImageReader

This one takes us back again to Google’s Tesseract OCR engine, which acts as the engine room to this rather well designed graphical frontend. The reader was handy because it automatically detects the page layout. Or if it makes a slight boob of it, you can manually readjust the areas.

The text is placed to the right of the image / scanned document, so you can see if everything is being taken down as it should. It does basic editing of that text, as well as spell checkingThe Top 5 OCR Spell Checking ToolsThe Top 5 OCR Spell Checking ToolsRead More (if you downloaded the relevant dictionary).

4. Capture2Text

This OCR tool serves a double role. First of all, it is a screenshot tool which then takes the screenshot and converts it into the Windows clipboard. You can then copy and paste the text into anywhere you want.

Secondly, it has voice recognition technology which transcribes your words for you. The site says this is experimental so don’t expect perfect results at the moment. Those with dreamy sultry accents like mine may experience difficulties.

5. VueScan

And you thought we would end without some Mac love, didn’t you? Well fear not, OSX’ers! If you need to do any OCR then here is VueScan to the rescue. It links to your scanner, and one of the advantages (the site actually lists it as a con) is that it is a very lightweight basic program. No bloat, but not too many features either. But it’s easy to install, easy to use, and it does its job, which is the main thing.

So which OCR programs float your boat? Are you a Google Drive OCR user perhaps? Or a user of another we haven’t covered here ? Let us know in the comments below.

Image Credit: Paperless sign (Shutterstock)

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  1. I just downloaded the Capture2Text utility (v4.5.1) from Sourceforge. It was simple to use, but the description in this article says that it does Voice recognition. That is not true. It does Text to speech (if enabled).

  2. Looking for OCR that retains (saves, keeps) the images - that is in-text pictures, images or illustrations in place after the OCR is over. Does nobody care about that?? Searched over dozens of OCR reviews, not even a single one mentions a bit on how the software deals with internal graphic. On the entire internet there seems to be not even a single sreenshot of OCR software processing graphical element - only the text. Is graphics in books so unimportant to anybody? Frustrating. wrrr

  3. Yunmai Technology is also a professional developer of (Optical Character Recognition) OCR software. It has been one of the best mobile OCR technology and application developers in the industry. Yunmai Document Recognition developed by Yunmai Technology is really nice. And it is free.

  4. 'a9t9 free ocr' is an *open-source* program that does exactly what FreeOCR does, but without the spyware and actually better ocr results: http://blog.a9t9.com/p/free-ocr-software.html

  5. Have tried three times to subscribe.. but so far nothing in my inbox to confirm??

  6. FreeOCR could not be downloaded, because AVAST antivir deletes it.

    FreeOCR to Word is infected with 6(!) drive by installations and one behaviour scanner..

    Thanks a lot!

  7. Abbyy Screenshot Reader has done a great job for me for 100s of OCR (often google books) for years. Sometimes inexpensive, sometimes it has been available free.

  8. Mark,
    As a bichon frisé owner myself ( if you still remember Kicsi) I thank you for mentioning VueScan, the program I've been using for a while for scanning documents, as a text extraction tool from scanned images. Not that I will use it often, but it's good to know it exists in case I'll need it.

  9. The FreeOCR to Word link sets off my virus scanner which is completely blocking the page. It doesn't like the favicon.ico for the page.

  10. FreeOCR was pretty good when I tried it a few years ago. It had a very easy to use interface, which was especially helpful when trying to convert those image PDFs that aren't text.

    THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR PRIMARY DIAGNOSTIC, ONLY FOR SCIENTIFIC USAGE. Php reader for mac sierra.

    The best OCR that was free, however (free in a manner of speaking) was that connected with OneNote. It will not only take screenshots, but also let you save them as a PNG, and also convert any text in an image into, well, text. I found of all the screenshot utilitites and free OCR, that OneNote was the best at taking the original screenshot, and then converting text inside that actual editable text. If you have MS Office, of course, it is 'free.'

    Its the only program that automatically starts with Windows on my laptop, apart from antivirus and Malwarebytes.

  11. Awesome, Thanks for sharing.

This comparison of optical character recognition software includes:

  • OCR engines, that do the actual character identification
  • Layout analysis software, that divide scanned documents into zones suitable for OCR
  • Graphical interfaces to one or more OCR engines
  • Software development kits that are used to add OCR capabilities to other software (e.g. forms processing applications, document imaging management systems, e-discovery systems, records management solutions)
Sortable table
NameFounded yearLatest stable versionRelease yearLicenseOnlineWindowsMac OS XLinuxBSDProgramming languageSDK?LanguagesFontsOutput FormatsNotes
Google Drive OCR or Google Cloud Vision2015FreeYesBrowserBrowserBrowserUnknownUnknownYes200+All fontstextGoogle blog post [1][2]
Tesseract19854.0.02018ApacheNoYesYesYesYesC++, CYes100+[3]Any printed fontText, hOCR,[4] PDF, others with different user interfaces[5] or the APICreated by Hewlett-Packard; under further development by Google[6]
ABBYY FineReader1989142017-01-25ProprietaryYesYesYesYesYesC/C++Yes192[7]?DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPTX, RTF, PDF, HTML, CSV, TXT, ODT, DjVu, EPUB, FB2[8]ABBYY also supplies SDKs for embedded and mobile devices. Professional, Corporate and Site License Editions for Windows, Express Edition for Mac.[9]
E-aksharayan2010YesNoYesNo14RTF, TXT, BRL
Asprise OCR SDK1998152015ProprietaryYesYesYesYesYesJava, C#,VB.NET, C/C++/DelphiYes20+[10]?Plain text, searchable PDF, XML[11]Java, C#, VB.NET, C/C++/Delphi SDKs for OCR and Barcode recognition on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Unix.[12]
AnyDoc Software1989??ProprietaryNoYesNoNoNoVBScript???Works with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents.
LEADTOOLS1990[13]19.02014ProprietaryYesYesYesYesNoC/C++, .NET, Objective-C, Java, JavaScriptYes56[14]Any printed fontPDF, PDF/A, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XPS, RTF, HTML, ANSI Text, Unicode Text, CSV[15]Supports Latin, Asian, Arabic, and MICR character sets.[16] For full page, zonal, and form image processing. Includes OCR, barcode, OMR and forms recognition.[17] ICR (handwritten text recognition) is supported.[18]
CuneiForm19961.12011-04-19BSD variantNoYesYesYesYesC/C++Yes28Any printed fontHTML, hOCR, native, RTF, TeX, TXT[19]Enterprise-class system, can save text formatting and recognizes complicated tables of any structure
Dynamsoft OCR SDK20038.22012ProprietaryYesYesNoNoNoC/C++Yes40+[20]?PDF, TXT
OmniPage1970s19.22015ProprietaryYesYesYesYesNoC/C++, C#[21]Yes125[22]Machine and handprinted fontsDOC/DOCX XLS/XLSX PPTX RTF PDF PDF/A Searchable PDF HTML Text XML ePUB MP3Product of Nuance Communications
Microsoft Office OneNote 20072011?2007ProprietaryNoYesNoNoNo????
GOCR20000.52[23]2018-10-15GPLYes[24]YesYesYesYesC?20+?
Ocrad?0.26[25]2017-03-31GPLYesNoYesYesYesC++YesLatin alphabet?Command line
SmartScore199110.5.82015-07ProprietaryNoYesYesNoNo????For musical scores
Microsoft Office Document Imaging?Office 20072007ProprietaryNoYesNoNoNo????Uses OmniPage[citation needed]
Puma.NET??2009-10-29BSDNoYesNoNoNoC#Yes28Any printed font.NET OCR SDK based on Cognitive Technologies' CuneiForm recognition engine. Wraps Puma COM server and provides simplified API for .NET applications
ReadSoft???ProprietaryNoYesNoNoNo????Scan, capture and classify business documents such as invoices, forms and purchase orders integrated with business processes.
Scantron???ProprietaryNoYesNoNoNo????For working with localized interfaces, corresponding language support is required.
OCRFeeder2009-030.8.12014-12-22GPLNoNoNoYesNoPython???Features a full user interface and has a command-line tool for automatic operations. Has its own segmentation algorithm but uses system-wide OCR engines like Tesseract or Ocrad
OCRopus20071.3.32017-12-16ApacheNoNoYesYesYesPython?All languages using Latin script (other languages can be trained)Normal Latin script and Fraktur (other scripts can be trained)TXT, hOCR[26], PDF[27]Pluggable framework under active development, used for Google Books
NameFounded yearLatest stable versionRelease yearLicenseOnlineWindowsMac OS XLinuxBSDProgramming languageSDK?LanguagesFontsOutput FormatsNotes

Evaluation[edit]

An analysis of the accuracy and reliability of the OCR packages Google Docs OCR, Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader, and Transym, employing a dataset including 1227 images from 15 different categories concluded Google Docs OCR and ABBYY to be performing better than others.[28]

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References[edit]

Ocr For Mac

  1. ^Dmitriy Genzel; Ashok Popat (May 6, 2015). 'Paper to Digital in 200+ languages'.
  2. ^Ashok Popat (Sep 4, 2015). 'IEEE SPS: Optical Character Recognition for Most of the World's Languages'.
  3. ^Based on count of language training files for version 3.04. Available at the download page.
  4. ^Usage explained in the Tesseract Readme and FAQ
  5. ^Such as ODF with OCRFeeder
  6. ^'GitHub - tesseract-ocr/tesseract: Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)'. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
  7. ^'ABBYY FineReader 14: Technical Specifications'. Finereader.abbyy.com. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
  8. ^'ABBYY FineReader 11: Technical Specifications'. Finereader.abbyy.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
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  14. ^'Ocr Sdk'. Leadtools. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
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  17. ^'LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging Developer Toolkit'. Leadtools.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
  18. ^'Icr Sdk'. Leadtools. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
  19. ^Debian manual page for Cuneiform for Linux version 1.1.0
  20. ^'OCR SDK Language Packages Download'. Dynamsoft.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
  21. ^'OmniPage CSDK - OCR Document Capture Toolkit Document Imaging & OCR'. Nuance. Archived from the original on 2010-08-24. Retrieved 2013-09-12.Cite uses deprecated parameter dead-url= (help)
  22. ^'OmniPage Standard Document Conversion'. Nuance. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  23. ^'GOCR Homepage'. wasd.urz.uni-magdeburg.de. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
  24. ^'GOCR'. Jocr.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
  25. ^Diaz, Antonio (2015-04-16). 'GNU Ocrad 0.26 released' (Mailing list). info-gnu.
  26. ^OCRopus includes the ocropus-hocr tool which produces hOCR from the recognition results.
  27. ^In combination with the hocr-tools
  28. ^Assefi, Mehdi (2016-12-01). 'OCR as a Service: An Experimental Evaluation of Google Docs OCR, Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader, and Transym'. Research gate. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
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