Tuesday, February 23, 2010

So what is this whole OCR thing anyway?

Have a scanned document you want to convert to text?  maybe an old contract you dont want to re-type?

Optical Character Recognition or OCR is the process of converting a picture to text, and can be an extreme time saver in any office.  There are many commercial OCR applications, as well as some free ocr tools that can provide simple or complex solutions.  In fact, many document scanning and document capture applications provide embedded OCR engines to help with the whole recognition process.  I will provide some great info and reviews in this blog to help you choose the right application.