Both OneNote and Free OCR generally produce accurate text, but you should check it yourself afterward. This is especially true if the image is complex, with a lot of graphics mixed with the text.

OCR is finally moving away from just seeing and matching. Driven by deep learning, it’s entering a new phase where it first recognizes scanned text, then makes meaning of it.

I'm looking for a free [preferably open-source; preferably cross-platform] OCR program that is actually worth using. I've tried a few out today, and haven't been too happy with the results - as in ...

An OCR program must not only decipher text printed in different fonts, sizes, and alphabets, and convert it to editable text, but also distinguish between text, graphics, and tables. Thanks to a ...

Abbyy FineReader 11 Professional has the same strengths and foibles as Nuance's competing pro edition. Though a snap to use, it's a little more expensive than similar programs.

A reader wrote to ask why her OCR program refused to convert a PDF document to a Microsoft Word DOC file, but converted it to a JPG image file instead.This and a few other recent questions have mad… ...

The best OCR software lets you scan your paper documents and archive them as digital PDF files. Staggeringly useful, then - but with so many different apps and programs out there, we wanted to ...

Programs must run correctly or they are of little value. Careful planning and testing of a program are essential, as is writing maintainable code. Boolean logic - OCR ...

Dive Insight: The report, which analyzed how OCR conducted its HIPAA audits from 2016 though 2020, found the agency’s program assessed few of the law’s requirements.