Is there an alternative to Finerader?

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Maxim Ponomarev2012-11-02 08:35:05

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Maxim Ponomarev, 2012-11-02 08:35:05

The wife has turned into a graduate student and now absorbs a lot of printed literature, her appetite is insatiable ... Moreover, she began to need books to magically turn into .doc documents. I remember that there was such a wonderful Finereader that recognized texts on scanned documents. I looked at it, climbed to look for alternatives, found a free CuneiForm from 2009 and several online services:

CuneiForm - seems to be more dead than alive;
Finereader-online - cool, but very limited if free;
newocr.com - also good, free, but quite a few bugs, no formatting;
free-ocr.com - file size limits and captcha every time;
onlineocr.ru - for a fee, if more than a little bit.

Most likely, some kind of desktop program will help me escape. Online service is an option.

I would like to hear from people who know firsthand about text recognition, only Finereader will save me or is there something else?

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Gwynbleidd, 2012-11-02
@Gwynbleidd

Google Docs can recognize texts and convert to Google Docs format.
For desktop, there is Readiris.

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Busla, 2012-11-02
@Busla

If your wife needs .doc at the exit, we can assume that you have MS Office - it also includes a recognition system. Recognition and export to Word is available in the MS Office Imaging application. If office 2010, this application is not included. Then we download SharePoint Designer 2007 separately officially for free - it is there. (You can put it without an office at all, but I suspect that the export will not work)

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digger, 2012-11-02
@digger

FineReader Home Edition costs $50. There are no real alternatives, the price is quite affordable.

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MusicMan67, 2012-11-02
@MusicMan67

So what did ABBYY Finereader not please?

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AlexP11223, 2012-11-02
@AlexP11223

Tesserat is completely free, even with the source code. Well, the truth is quite hardcore: in the form of a console program (however, someone probably made a GUI for it), and of course no magical transformation into * .doc like.

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Timur Tuz, 2012-11-02
@TTA

Office 2010 has a recognizer. True, very smart small software developers decided to shove recognition functions into OneNote and nowhere else. Throw a picture into it and copy the text from there. But it is “nambar tu” in quality, there is nothing cooler than FR.