Convert Text from Scans and Images with OCR Reader

If you have any scanned documents such as PDFs or even images that contain text, you can use the free OCR Reader app to convert or translated those images into text that you can then edit in another program. You can even use the app with your scanner to convert scans\images to text and then save the output as a PDF, Word or text file.

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https://vovsoft.com/software/ocr-reader/

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hi in this video we're going to show you
an OCR reader tool that you could use to
convert text from images and scans into
actual text so you could then edit them
in your you know Word documents or that
type of thing all right so it's called
OCR reader so there are a couple
versions there's the free version and
the pay for version so here's the
difference between the two so pretty
much uh for the trial version you can't
use it for commercial use you'll have to
deal with the nag screen when you first
started and you won't get any updates so
there are two versions of the program an
installable version and a portable
version so I'm using the portable
version you just download the zip file
and extract it and you just run the
executable so there's your nag screen
right
there all right so we have this PDF file
here that was a scan
all right so you can tell it's a scan
document so we'll just drag that in
there you can also click on load file
here or load multiple files or even
paste an image or even
scan okay so here's what it did to the
PDF here looks pretty good and of course
you're going to have to double check the
results for spelling errors or grammar
errors and that type type of thing all
right then we have this scan here just
an image file so this one has some
graphics and some special characters so
let's see what this one
does all right you can see it missed a
couple things here that you wouldd have
to
fix then some extra characters here
you'd have to fix but overall it did a
pretty good job and you can't expect it
to be perfect when scanning something
that looks like this and trying to
translate it into text especially with
the
graphics all right now we have this list
here for
Santa so you could see it didn't quite
read it that well probably because of
the handwriting style text so that's
another thing you might run into
but it still might be
usable right and then finally we have
this paragraph here that's just a bunch
of words all group
together and also when you load an image
you have some options here if you want
to convert to black and white decrease
the brightness rotate and so
on so let's say we did a noise
reduction you can see that didn't do too
well on this one here
here so if you don't like the results
you can simply drag your picture back in
there again all right so let's uh see
what else we have here let's decrease
the brightness for
example that may or may not help all
right so now we'll do the start OCR for
this
one all right so you can see it did a
pretty good job on this just made it one
big paragraph like it did in the graphic
then up here you have the options to
load files save as text save as PDF save
as word and the image options you saw
and you have some options here to
refresh your scanner list if it's not
reading your scanner and so on and you
can also click on save from here and get
the same
options and of course you could toggle
back and forth between the image and the
text all right so for a simple app it
does a pretty good job so you might want
to check it out so I'll put a link in
the description where you download OCR
reader and you can try it for yourself
all right thanks for watching be sure to
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