10 useful free OCR tools

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10 useful free OCR tools

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I use gscan2pdf with the Tesseract OCR back end. It creates a good looking pdf, and is reliably text searchable. It is not however (text) editable if opened in a pdf editor. I am generally scanning in old tech documents or manuals. My goal is to have something readable and something that can be quickly found with common search tools.

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Paperwork is the only one Ive ever tried but I dont use OCR tools very often.
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