I need a good OCR application for Windows 7 that can translate my scanned document into a text file. Can anyone suggest one?
If possible, is there one that can also translate handwriting?
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ABBYY FineReader does this, but it's also very expensive if you don't happen to find it "lying by the side of the road" or something. If you have Windows 7, I assume you have Microsoft Office, which has an OCR program included, but I do not believe this handles handwriting. ABBYY: http://finereader.abbyy.com/ Microsoft one: http://www.geckoandfly.com/2008/07/17/where-is-the-ocr-in-microsoft-office-2007/ | ||||
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Tesseract (currently under development by Google) is the most accurate OCR program that I have used. However it has the drawbacks of only being able to process TIFF files, and not performing layout analysis (ie handling multi-column documents, images, equations etc). I don't believe that it can handle handwriting. | |||||
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If you own a copy of Office 2007, check out OneNote. It can take text out of images (drag and drop onto a note), out of screenshots, etc. It also supports handwriting recognition and text searching into audio dictation recordings. It's a pretty neat program. | |||
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You might want to look at the answers to this question for a few online (some of which are free) alternatives. The advantage is that you don't have to install anything on your computer to get going. The downside is that I don't think they can handle handwriting. | |||
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