<body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener("load", function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <iframe src="http://www.blogger.com/navbar.g?targetBlogID=8211560&amp;blogName=Web+Development+Tips%2C+Tricks+%26+Trivia&amp;publishMode=PUBLISH_MODE_BLOGSPOT&amp;navbarType=BLUE&amp;layoutType=CLASSIC&amp;searchRoot=http%3A%2F%2Fmvark.blogspot.com%2Fsearch&amp;blogLocale=en_IN&amp;homepageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fmvark.blogspot.com%2F" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" height="30px" width="100%" id="navbar-iframe" allowtransparency="true" title="Blogger Navigation and Search"></iframe> <div></div>

Web Development Tips, Tricks & Trivia

by 'Anil' Radhakrishna
A seasoned developer's little discoveries and annotated bookmarks.

Search from over a hundred Web Development HOW TO articles, Tips and Tricks

Free OCR Tools

Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is a technology to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or images captured by a digital camera into text so that they are editable and searchable.

There are both free & commercial tool-kits.

Free -
  1. SimpleOCR - 9.3MB application. SDK/Command Line versions are commercially available
  2. InstantOCR - web based OCR
  3. OCR Terminal beta - web based OCR, converts TIFF, JPEG, GIF, BMP formats to .doc, .txt, .rtf, .xml formats; PDF to Word
Free, Under development -
  1. GOCR
  2. Tesseract
Commercial OCR Toolkits -
  1. ABBYY FineReader
  2. OmniPage
Also see:
Experimental OCR feature to create editable Google Documents from high-res images
HOW TO identify a Font

Labels:

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 14, 2009. You can skip to the end and leave a response.

« Home | Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »

Links to this post:

Create a Link


»

Post a Comment



» Add to Technorati Favorites

Popular Posts

» HOW TO add a header or footer to a dynamically generated Word document
» HOW TO make web pages "cross browser"
» HOW TO show UTC Date/Time recorded on the server in the user's regional time zone format
» HOW TO control ASP.NET's Adaptive Rendering behavior
» Book Review: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Application Development Framework
» HOW TO send an email programmatically using C# with GMail