TopOCR is a free high performance OCR system designed for digital cameras and is capable of recognizing 11 languages. Supports multiple text output formats, including searchable PDF and HTML, as well as a Text To Speech Interface. There are no page limits or extra components needed. TopOCR supports a wide variety of cameras and smartphones with it´s powerful easy to use Image Processing System, and can handle images with mixed text and graphics.

Features:

• Incredible 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?
• Supports a Command Line Interface and a GUI
• TopOCR´s entire interface can be easily customized
• Make a high performance document Search and Indexing system
• Browser Helper Mode supports creating free audio eBooks

What's New in version 3.0:

• New Advanced Image Filters.
• Improved Threshold.
• New UI.
• Added Document Image Dewarping.

SimpleOCR is a free OCR software to convert your scanned images to text files or Word documents. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK (or API) for developers to use in their custom applications.

SimpleOCR features include TWAIN scanning, ability to manually specify text and image zones, English, French and Dutch dictionaries, interactive correction with suggestions from dictionary, output to plain text or RTF (MS Word) formats and more.

It provides all of the most commonly used OCR features and competitive recognition rates for many types of documents. If you just need to convert a few documents to text to save retyping, SimpleOCR will save you hours of time without the $75-$700 cost.

Developers can use the SimpleOCR API to add OCR capabilities to their custom software. If your application deals with document images, SimpleOCR will let you add full-text searching or automate the indexing process with zone OCR.

If you have a scanner and want to avoid retyping your documents, SimpleOCR is the fast, free way to do it. The SimpleOCR freeware is 100% free and not limited in any way. Anyone can use SimpleOCR for free--home users, educational institutions, even corporate users.

A 15-day demo of Charactell´s Softwriting handprint recognition engine is also included. Machine print recognition has no limitations or advertisements.

FreeKapture is a free Twain image capture application from TSoft that should work on any Windows (98 and on) Twain compliant system. TWAIN is, allegedly, an acronym for Technology Without An Interesting Name and is software (a driver) supplied by the manufacturer of TWAIN complaint devices.

Using this driver, FreeKapture is able to scan, save and print your images (photographs etc.). Images are saved in JPG or BMP formats.

Free OCR is a complete scan and OCR program including the Tesseract free ocr engine V2. It includes a Windows installer and It is very simple to use and supports multi-page tiff´s, fax documents as well as most image types including compressed Tiff´s which the Tesseract engine on its own cannot read .It now has Twain scanning included and support for multipage Tiff documents. Best of all it is totally free!

Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.