best ocr software – Icecream Tech Digest https://icecreamapps.com/blog Tue, 29 Nov 2022 13:06:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Best OCR Software: Offline and Online Options https://icecreamapps.com/blog/best-ocr-software/ https://icecreamapps.com/blog/best-ocr-software/#respond Thu, 28 May 2020 13:33:41 +0000 https://icecreamapps.com/blog/?p=4340 Although businesses are largely transitioning to digital processes and a digital way of working, paper is still prevalent. Use OCR software to convert scan to text and transfer all the paper-based documents into the digital form. OCR stands for Optical … Continue reading →

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]]> Best OCR SoftwareAlthough businesses are largely transitioning to digital processes and a digital way of working, paper is still prevalent. Use OCR software to convert scan to text and transfer all the paper-based documents into the digital form.

OCR stands for Optical character recognition. Such software as OCR converter uses advanced algorithms to automatically scan and detect hand-written text in documents (mostly PDF, also JPG and PNG) and translate it into digital formats that can be edited as regular text.

Using an OCR software, you can scan paper-based document that may be saved as PDF’s or image files and transform them into editable files like Word or TXT documents. This provides brilliant flexibility, but also reduces your reliance on paper. Some businesses may even use OCR applications to transition to a paperless operation.

In this article, we look at five of the best OCR software available for your benefit.

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]]> https://icecreamapps.com/blog/best-ocr-software/feed/ 0 How to Convert Scanned PDF to Word https://icecreamapps.com/blog/convert-scanned-pdf-word/ https://icecreamapps.com/blog/convert-scanned-pdf-word/#comments Fri, 13 May 2016 15:28:27 +0000 http://icecreamapps.com/blog/?p=1532 Converting PDF to Word is a great way to edit PDF documents just like any other text files. The main difficulty is to edit and, as we just found out, convert scanned PDF documents. We decided to figure out the … Continue reading →

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]]> How to Convert Scanned PDF to WordConverting PDF to Word is a great way to edit PDF documents just like any other text files. The main difficulty is to edit and, as we just found out, convert scanned PDF documents. We decided to figure out the ways to convert scanned PDF documents to Word that require OCR recognition. It was rather surprising when it came to testing out the software and online tools that were meant for PDF to Word conversion, since we couldn’t find any other free ways to convert scanned PDFs to Doc format other than with the use of Icecream PDF Converter. This software turned out to be the only OCR software that is capable of turning scanned PDF files into text for free out of the five programs we tested. We also tried seven online tools and all of them failed as well. Take a look at the results of our research on how to convert scanned PDF documents to Word documents below.
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