[access-uk] Free OCR
- From: "Vanja Sudar" <vanja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 21:51:59 -0000
Has anyone heard of this software? The name sort of says for itself what it
does or should do. Is it accessible? I’m about to try it and will let you know
the results. You can' find this at http://www.paperfile.net/
Here’s what the website say about it:
“
Free OCR is a document scanning software including the Windows compiled
Tesseract free ocr engine also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows
installer and It is very simple to use and supports opening multi-page tiff
documents, Adobe PDF and fax documents as well as most image types including
compressed Tiff's which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read .It now can
scan using Twain and WIA scanning drivers.
The Tesseract OCR PDF engine is an open source product released by Google. It
was developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories between 1985 and 1995. In 1995 it
was one of the top 3 performers at the OCR accuracy contest organized by
University of Nevada in Las Vegas. The Tesseract engine source code is now
maintained by Google and the project can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
FreeOCR is a freeware document scanning software and you can do what you like
with it including commercial use. The included Tesseract free OCR engine is
distributed under the Apache V2.0 license.
FreeOCR V4 is soon to be released this includes Tesseract V3 which increases
accuracy and has page layout anaysis so more accurate results can be achieved
without using the zone selection tool.
FreeOCR v4 is currently undergoing beta tesing and will be released in the
first half of 2011.”
Obviously that last part is out of date. So, if this works and is accessible
can be a great alternative for rather expencive OCR software.
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