Free OCR for Windows

Name: Free OCR
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)
Author: Steelsoft

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffFebruary 26, 2026

This online Optical Character Recognition service accurately extracts text from images and PDF files. It supports 59 languages, leveraging the powerful Tesseract OCR engine via cloud technology.

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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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GENERAL

Release: July 28, 2015

Latest update: February 26, 2026

Version: 7.0.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 10
Windows XP

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 9,019

Downloads Last Week: 2

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1/5

1 User Votes

Would not open .pdf file.
wuming12June 12, 2016
Pros
No pros because I did not try any other file format except a .pdf file.
Cons
Would not open .pdf file. I even changed from lower to upper case (.pdf to .PDF to .Pdf) and it gave an error. It would not open the file; Step 1. It also required an older version of .net Framework; ver. 2 and MS is up to ver. 4. So I had to search for the earlier version before the program installed.
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Developer’s Description

By Steelsoft

Recognize text from images and PDF files.

Recognize text from images using the Tesseract OCR Engine based on the cloud technology.Use Optical Character Recognition software online. Service supports 59 languages including Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Extract text from images (JPG, PNG,BMP,TIF) and pdf files, convert into editable Text output formats.It is based on cloud technology, and very famous OCR engine( Tesseract OCR Engine), so there is only hundreds of KB in size, but it can extract text in 59 languages, from the images and pdf files.It supports more languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Free OCR for Windows

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