How Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Works

OCR is a complex technology that converts images with text into editable formats. OCR allows you to process scanned books, screenshots and photos with text and get editable documents like TXT, DOC or PDF files. This technology is widely used in many areas and the most advanced OCR systems can handle almost all types of images, even such complex as scanned magazine pages with images and columns or photos from a mobile phone.

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What is OCR Text

Optical character recognition (OCR) text is the text that OCR software has translated from the original newspaper page to online format. It is electronically scanned in and has not been manually reviewed or corrected. OCR makes it possible to search large quantities of full text information but it is not 100% accurate. The accuracy depends on a variety of factors: condition of the original newspaper or microfilm, quality of the paper, size and style of the font and column layouts, for example.

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How to Extract Text from Scanned PDF (PDF OCR)

Step1 – Input PDF

Launch Free OCR to choose “OCR“. Click “Load Image” to choose an image file you want to extract and click “Open” to input it to the program window.

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How to Extract Text from Image (Image OCR)

Step1 – Input Image

Launch Free OCR to choose “OCR“. Click “Load Image” to choose an image file you want to extract and click “Open” to input it to the program window.

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