Used Free OCR for Windows?
Editors’ Review
Download.com staff
Pros
- Recognizes text from images and PDF files
- Supports 59 languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
- Uses the well-known Tesseract OCR Engine
- Cloud-based technology ensures a small application size
- Outputs editable text formats
Cons
- Requires an internet connection for operation
- Specific image file formats supported are JPG, PNG, BMP, TIF
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