FreeOCR is a scan & OCR program including the
Tesseract free ocr engine, also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows installer, and it is very simple to use. FreeOCR supports multi-page TIFFs, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed TIFFs, which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read. It can handle PDF formats and is also compatible with TWAIN scanners.
The Tesseract free OCR 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.

The Tesseract free OCR 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.
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FreeOCR
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- Developed by Paperfile.net
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FreeOCR
Summary and Relevance
Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about FreeOCR, and it has gotten 27 likes
- Developed by Paperfile.net
- Proprietary and Free product.
- 57 alternatives listed
Popular alternatives
View allFreeOCR was added to AlternativeTo by Aerialsky on Aug 27, 2009 and this page was last updated Aug 11, 2020.
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- pankajtripathi added Extract table from pdf [Docsumo] as an alternative to FreeOCRpaabout 1 month ago
- samymassoud added FreeOCR as alternative(s) to DevTools3603 months ago
Is FreeOCR compatible with Windows 7 64bit?
Does it only work in bit32 environment?
To work it 64bit, what to do?
This feature is listed in the future features section.
Also: latest release is 2015.