ABBYY FineReader – The Best OCR Software – A Review

Many a times you have to type a document as it is, from an already typed printed document i.e. a hardcopy. You can type documents by with 10-20 pages easily by investing time, but what if the number of pages is 100+ or 500+?

Here comes in handy the use of OCR softwares.

What is OCR?

OCR stands for Optical Character Reader. In words of folks at ABBYY:

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that enables conversion of images, received from scanner or digital camera, and PDFs to editable and searchable text documents ready for editing, quoting, search, and archiving.

These are the programs designed for Desktops, Laptops (and now even Smart Phones and Tablets) which can convert the printed documents into digital / electronic format with the help of algorithms on which they work. At present , different projects are going on, in the market for OCR technology, but the Leader among all is ABBYY’s FineReader. ABBYY is a company who has mastered the OCR technology since its launch in 1989 and have built a trust factor among users for value for money.

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Download 7-Zip 9.20 (2010-11-18) for Windows:

Link	Type	Windows	Size
Download	.exe	32-bit x86	1 MB
Download	.msi	64-bit x64	1 MB

The download links above redirect you to download pages on SourceForge.net

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