One can find Portable Document Format Optical Character Recognition software at many software sites including Brothersoft, Softpedia, and Tracker Software.
Click the related link . In that website you can find A-PDF OCR. The software A-PDF OCR is a PDF ocr software which can ocr the scanned pdf in to editable format.
Yes there are many OCR software programs that work with PDF's, as PDF is a relatively standard file format for all computers. One good example of this can be found at http://www.investintech.com/pdf-ocr.htm.
If you can't edit a PDF file's text, it might be scanned file. In that case, if you want to edit it, please use some PDF ocr softwares. PDF ocr software can recognize the charactors of the file and turn them into text files. PDFOCR is a famous, easy-to-use ocr software, and you can try it by clicking the link below.
One can download free OCR software on CNET. Many scanners will usually come with the OCR software for free and they can be found at a good price on Amazon or eBay.
PDF OCR products can be obtained from the online site CNET. PDF OCR products convert scanned PDF paper books and documents into easily edited text files.
If your pdf file is an editable format, you can use the PDF converter software in the related link below. The pdf Converter - PDF-Zilla can convert pdf file into word docs. I have tried it for several times and it is very convenient. But if your pdf file is a scanned file, the PDF-zilla can only convert it into images. So you can try the second software, A-PDF OCR. Just click the second link and try it. It can OCR scanned PDF or scanned paper documents into text files or searchable PDF. But the software don't have a trial version, you can buy it. And if you don't satisfied, they will give you the money back. I just bought the software 3 weeks ago and I think the software is perfect.
In researching your answer I found that OCR software is used to extract text from faxed or scanned documents and pull them into Word or Excel documents.
No, OCR works on bitmaps. A PDF document is not a bitmap untill the PDF has been printed and scanned in as a bitmap.
The full form of "OCR" is Optical Character Recognition. OCR can be used with any digital document (such as a PDF file) to extract its text and either create an editable text file, or a searchable PDF. Some scanner software includes OCR, so that when you scan a document, it is processed with OCR as it is scanned.There's a free online tool at CVISION Tech's website if you want to try using OCR on any document file you might have.
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OCR software can be downloaded at no cost from several different websites. Websites that allow you to download OCR software for no cost include www.freewarezoom.com/archives/free-ocr, and www.geckoandfly.com.
OCR software is innovative software which utilizes Optical Character Recgonition (OCR). This software is commonly employed in scanners which upload images of documents, converting the text to an easy-to-access digital format.