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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.