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Advanced OCR Free helps you view PDF files and automate the transformation of image-based content into editable, searchable PDF files within workflows, so you can access content for vital business processes more easily. The simple design of the interface makes text extraction a breeze. Advanced OCR Free enables you to export a scanned PDF or image file like a document, invoice, book or anything else to TXT or Microsoft Word. The high OCR accuracy guarantees the text quality. Our new technology greatly increases OCR accuracy. It also has a build-in text editor which allows you to edit the OCR result text. You may also output the extracted text into Word. Using Advanced OCR Free can save you much time and money by sharing electronic documents instead of stacks of paper files. Advanced OCR Free contains a fast and feature rich PDF viewer which allows you to open, view, print any PDF files. The Document Properties dialog box allows you to add some metadata to your PDF file, like Title, Author, Subject & Keywords and you may customize the Name and Value. It shows the security status and fonts of your PDF. You may change how a PDF file is displayed (view layout) with options like Navigation tab, Magnification, Page layout & set the starting page. Advanced OCR Free is completely free to use. It contains no adware, spyware or any other malicious components. You don't need to install any version of Adobe Acrobat to perform all the operations. Advanced OCR Free is specially designed with learnability and usability in mind. You don't need any previous experience to OCR the PDF - just input the PDF and click some buttons to extract the text.
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All versions:
3.5 starsout of 17 votes
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Current version:
3.4 starsout of 14 votes
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"Works great for me."
Version: Advanced OCR Free 5.0.1
Pros
Fast. No hassles.
Cons
None so far.
Summary
I am glad to find it! It does all that I need and does accurately.
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"Junk, Junk, Junk"
Version: Advanced OCR Free 5.0.1
Pros
It installs.
Cons
Will convert your PDF or image into an alien language.
Summary
Yet another uninstall.
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"Not for Lg Files ONE PAGE AT A TIME Not accurate"
Version: Advanced OCR Free 5.0.1
Pros
Simple to use but what's the point... it spits out half gibberish when given a perfectly clear and legible text.
Cons
Some text comes out while other is turned to gibberish and symbols.
You have to click through your document one page at a time and wait while the OCR output is done for that page.
Probably more, this was enough for me... uninstalled it.Summary
I saw a pretty simple interface so that seemed like a good start. Simple to use too once I hit the help button to see online instructions. Loaded the doc, hit the OCR button and waited for magic... no hum of any work being done and only the first page was on screen -- a title and doc number only on this page and the doc number was turned into strange symbols while a very clear "r" was turned into a 7. -- It was then that I realized that I would have to go through this 1180 page document, letting it read one page at a time. I made it to page 18. Not even close enough to accurate to bother. It might do a decent job on smaller projects where you can find and fix the errors but for my purpose it's just plain trash. System Windows 7
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"Junk does not OCR image"
Version: Advanced OCR Free 5.0.1
Pros
Well it installed without appearing to install any other junky software.
Cons
It simply did not work at all. I had an image I wanted to convert to text, it opened the image, I clikced OCR and total gibberish appeared in the other side where the text was supposed to be.
Summary
Don't bother to download this. Machine was Win 7 SP1, all I tried was OCR of a bmp.
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"Works works"
Version: Advanced OCR Free 5.0.1
Pros
works works
Cons
no combining allowed
Summary
works like i need it to--except for not combining!
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"Fills a Basic Need"
Version: Advanced OCR Free 5.0.1
Pros
Quick
Low overhead
Good OCRCons
No formatting
Summary
Use it often
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"It does the job."
Version: Advanced OCR Free 5.0.1
Pros
This utility works better than I expected.
Cons
Not perfect. I had to change a few letters and words, but it's acceptable.
Summary
I didn't expect this program to recognize printed characters as well as it does. Nice.
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"Incredibly Awesome."
Version: Advanced OCR Free 5.0.1
Pros
Recognize at least 99% of text. At least in my experience.
Cons
None. I couldn't find anything wrong or that bothered me.
Summary
Way better than other versions. Has made my life a lot easier and I finish a lot faster.
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"Did not work"
Version: Advanced OCR Free 5.0.1
Pros
Easy to install
Cons
not one word worked on the document I needed to do. It seems to not handle canted docs.
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"Would not read clear text from a software program"
Version: Advanced OCR Free 5.0.1
Pros
User interface is relatively intuitive.
Cons
Would not read text correctly (not even close in some cases) from a clear digital image of text (screenshot from software program).
Summary
This didn't work for me when I tried to convert images to text. I tried .jpg, .png, .tif and none worked. Maybe this works for PDFs - I don't know.
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