Sometimes I getdocuments from my clients on my virtual fax number, and I have to modify some text in them. In the absence of a good OCR (Optical Character Reconition) Tool, I sometimes end up again typing up that document to modify it. Online OCR is a neat web application that will make it really easy for me to extract text from faxes, and scanned documents.
OnlineOCR is a web-based OCR service that allows you to convert scanned paper documents (including multipage files), faxes, photographs or digital camera captured images into editable and searchable electronic documents including Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Rtf, Html and Txt. If you already have a scanned document, then you can directly upload that on Online OCR’s website, and it will let you download the converted document. If you just have a hard copy of a document(like a fax), and do not have a scanner then you can take photograph of that document. You can then upload that photograph to Online OCR, and Online OCR will be able to convert that too.
Online OCR does a really good job at conversion. Converted documents look exactly like the original – tables, columns, bullets and graphics.
Here are some of the features of this free Online OCR:
Recognizes 28 Languages
Online OCR is able to recognize text from 28 languages! Following languages are supported:
English, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Latin, Moldavian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Many Input Formats
Online OCR is able to accept files from many different formats:
- PDF (All types of PDF files including multi-page PDFs)
- TIF/TIFF (Multipage TIFFs supported)
- JPEG/JPG
- BMP
- PCX
- PNG
- GIF
Upload zip files:
You can even upload ZIP files containing the above types of files. Online OCR will unzip the files, complete the conversion, and will give you download link for converted document.
Various Output Formats:
Online OCR gives you the possibility to convert recognized text into 6 output formats:
- Adobe PDF
- MS Word
- MS Excel
- HTML
- Rich Text Format
- Plain Text
Choose pages to be converted in a Multi-Page file
If you upload a multipage PDF file, you can specify which pages you want to convert. You can specify exact pages, or even range of pages. This will reduce conversion time.
Free for first 5 pages
Online OCR is completely free for first 5 pages. You will need to buy credits to convert more pages.
Online OCR is a really good software for converting scanned documents to editable formats. The biggest limitation with this is that it allows you to convert only upto 5 pages for free, even though there are other completely free programs out there to convert a PDF to Word, or Convert PDF to Excel.
Discussion8 Comments
Hi,
I have been reading your blog posts and came across this one in which you discussed OCR. I thought you might be interested to check out OCR Terminal as well.
This is an online OCR service that we provide. We have some neat features, such as
· 20 free page credits per month
· Supports many input formats, such as PDF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG and GIF
· Results can be downloaded as DOC, searchable PDF, RTF and plain text
· API to help developers integrate OCR functionality in their web apps
Besides OCR Terminal recently came out of Beta. So take a minute to try us out! We love to hear what you think about it.
Thanks!
Xuwen (Ms)
OCR Terminal
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@Xuwen: Thanks for dropping by. I will check out your website.
Hello,
I've experienced similar problems when working with scans and PDFs and I've also looked around for a good OCR tool. I found a really good online OCR tool from CVISION. It's really easy to use, there's no downloading at all, and it's free. It can handle PDF, TIFF, JPG, and BMP. Also there's no limit to how many pages you can convert. You should definitely check it out.
Here's the link: http://www.cvisiontech.com/online-conversion/gene…
I am a mac user…downloaded the OCR converter..when I convert Image–>PDF..a pdf is generated ..OK..but, when I convert to a text file….a file is generated…but, its not readable…I don’t know how I can get a normal text file as output.
Is there any online OCR tool that gives accurate results (99% -100%) for hand wriiten fonts also. I have scanned files (.gif image) contains text in different fonts. I almost tried with all the available tools, but I was not satisfied with the results. Could you please suggest?
Thanks,
Sekhar
While searching for a free online OCR service to text my image documents, i found that most of the online services give roughly the same accuracy given high image quality. Almost all of them fails for handwritten text and as mentioned by @Sekhar, you can not get 100% accuracy unless you have super quality 400 DPI and letter height not less than 15px. I also would recommend i2OCR. The service has no limitations, no ads, 33+ langaues, multiple image formats, and on top of that the user interface is super clean.
I would like to recommend the following free online ocr service, it strikes a balance between high accuracy and great usability
http://www.sciweavers.org/free-online-ocr
Thanks!
We would like to acquire software that will read the details of a license plate off a photograph taken with a hand held digital camera. Approximately 500 photographs are taken every day and we want the details transcribed from the photographs quickly and directly into an Excel sheet. Could you please advise us? Thanks JWM