Free OCR program or software for macintosh

[Devasis]

Optical character recognition (OCR) is the mechanical or electronic translation of images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-editable text. SimpleOCR is the popular freeware from OCR software.

The main features that differentiate OCR software are:

• Character recognition accuracy
• Page layout reconstruction accuracy
• Multi-engine voting technology
• Support for languages
• Support for searchable PDF output
• User interface
• Great speed

SimpleOCR not only converts black and while or grayscale scans from paper documents, it can also translates black and white or grayscale TIFF images with text. SimpleOCR freeware is free software. It is available everyone.

[Sam.D]

OmniPage Pro is also very good ORC software. It can handle multiple columns, inset text boxes, color art, and fonts in multiple sizes, colors, and styles. OmniPage is the fastest and most precise way to convert documents into editable digital content that looks and acts just like an original digital document complete with columns, colors, pictures and graphics. There is a version of OmniPage designed to handle every document conversion and OCR need from the home office to high volume business processes.