Thursday, June 23, 2011

Edit printed text (OCR)

I was once given a piece of paper from my dad. He said that he urgently needed to send it via email and need to edit some text from it. Thus he told me to type the whole text on a word file.

At that moment, I had to type it as i could not waste time, searching for some alternative.
But after wards i found out that text can be recognized by a computer from an image file(JPG, BMP etc.).
And this technique is called OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
Here is a good software for OCR.
It's called Free OCR
You can download it from http://www.paperfile.net/
Or you can also find out other softwares by searching for "OCR softwares".