Im wondering if anyone knows if any free/open source OCR software (hopefully even anything command line or coding based) that can detect and reproduce data tables in digital form?

This stems from wanting to get data tables out of pdfs (a pipe dream at best) so has lead me to OCR instead.

With large amounts of data as well it would have to be able to work in batches.

Any thoughts on apps, code, librarys or anything please post.

link|improve this question
Would be great if it could handle merged or word wrapped cells as well. – Mark Aug 25 '10 at 10:32
feedback

1 Answer

up vote 1 down vote accepted

http://download.abbyy.com/content/default.aspx is not free but the demo will allow you to save 50 pages.

link|improve this answer
feedback

Your Answer

 
or
required, but never shown

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.