Optical Character Recognition for Windows


  1. jsquareg
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    Windows 7 Home Premium (Retail) Full version - With SP1
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    Optical Character Recognition for Windows


    Each month, I receive a document by snail mail that I need to scan and produce a file I can search for certain words.

    I have found a multitude of OCR programs on the web but can't tell from the descriptions if any of them will do what I want.

    Will someone here please recommend a simple, preferably free or cheap, program/procedure I can use to do this? I would prefer a Win7 one but in a pinch could use a Win 10 one.

    Thank you very much.
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  3. arizonajak
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    Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
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    Didn't your scanner come with an OCR feature?

    If not, see if you can find a free version of ABBYY Finereader or OmniPage OCR.

    Both work pretty good.
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