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Softonic Rating:
Good:7/10
License:
Free
Added:
September 21, 2007
Updated:
June 25, 2008
Publisher:
Website
File size:
1.9 MB
Downloads:
1,554
Nick Mead

“Convert scanned documents into text”

by Nick Mead

If you don't have time to type a document, why not scan it and turn it into text instantly? Softi FreeOCR is a program that serves to interpret scanned documents and to turn them to editable text on your PC. If you have a lot of documents that you need to transfer to editable text, then this could save you hours of time.

Note that this program only detects English text. Softi FreeOCR, or rather Tesseract - the OCR motor that the program uses - only recognises English. However, you can add other languages by uploading them from the developer website and extracting the files to “the tessdata” folder which can be found within the program folder.

This is a decent attempt at a text reading program but unfortunately, it doesn't always read documents correctly and has trouble with small text. Nevertheless, it can capture the majority of a document which will save you time.

Languages:

English

OS requirements for Softi FreeOCR:

  • OS: Win2000/XP

Minimum requirements:

Pros
  • Saves time by turning scans into text
  • Very quick and easy to use
  • Reads many text types
Cons
  • Doesn't always read text correctly
  • Limited language range
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From the publisher of Softi FreeOCR

Softi FreeOCR is a complete scan and OCR program including the Windows compiled Tesseract free ocr engine V2.00. It includes a Windows installer and is very simple to use.

It supports multi-page tiff's, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff's which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read. It now has Twain scanning included and support for multi page Tiff documents. Best of all it is totally free!

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6/10

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