Question

Hello, currently I'm using Abby Finereader, but I'm not satisfied with the number of options it provides. I have a PDF, which consists of regular text, pictures and labels for them (in italics). I'd like to find a program, able to recognize and save only the regular text, deleting page numbers, some fancy side-comments and so on. Which one would you recommend?

Answer 1

Omipage is my choice. i have ben usin it for years and never had a problem. Like all OCR's, there are times that it will pick up marks on the pages as characters, but it make life so much easier.

Answer 2

OCR for AnyDoc and Kofax are both industrial-strength options.

Answer 3

Nuance's Omnipage lets you select what you whant yo keep from the image. I've used it, and it was faily easy.

Answer 4

i really like TopOCR, certainly a great addition to your scan tools:

* Incredible OCR accuracy, upto 99.8% with a 3 MP camera
* No page limits, and no extra downloads or components needed
* Handles images with mixed text and graphics (Manual or Auto Zoning)
* Tolerates skew and uneven lighting
* Multiple text output formats, including searchable PDF and HTML
* Able to read 11 different languages
* Powerful, easy to use Image Processing with Image Dewarping
* Supports Smartphones: See some Smartphone samples
* Includes built-in, full featured Text and Image WYSIWYG Editors
* Post-processing spell checker for all 11 languages
* Built-in Text-To-Speech software. How about OCR to MP3?
* Includes a built-in multi-lingual text translater
* Supports a Command Line Interface and a GUI
* Make a high performance document Search and Indexing system
* Browser Helper Mode supports creating free audio eBooks
* With TopOCR's Web Engine it's easy to add new features

it's very accurate and works excellent with low quality images such as photographs of pages/documents

TopOCR is freeware (can be made portable with Universal Extractor)