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Victory: Irfanview for OCR
I had a nice victory this week with Irfanview and OCR (optical character recognition).
I had a good quality scan of a page I didn't want to retype.
I opened up Irfanview IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide and installed the plugin package IrfanView PlugIns
I installed the whole package of plugins but the OCR part is called Kadmos OCR KADMOS / IrfanView.
Then I opened the scanned page in Irfanview
clicked Options / Start OCR
then I was shown a page with the text parts highlighted in yellow
in fact this was the hardest part of the job, because I kept looking for an "export text" button.
But, all I needed to do was click (or click drag to select) on the area of the text I wanted and it automatically opens a text editor page with that text in it. That was so simple I almost missed it.
Awesome app, and free.
I couldn't find any clips on Youtube showing this ability.