Catherine asks:
I am using OCR program Finereader Sprint (it was bundled with a scanner). It is quite good for some easy tasks, but now I need more functionality to work with large projects and convert PDF documents.
Can you recommend me a more complete OCR software? Is it better to upgrade to Finereader full version?
4 Answers -
Bruce Epper
July 18, 2012You could try Tesseract OCR (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) which is free. If that does not meet your needs, you would probably be better off upgrading your current software to the Pro version.
Jeff Hamilton
July 19, 2012That is a tough one, and it depends greatly on your needs.
I have had great (and crappy) results from OEM OCR software. I can also say the same for some of the paid products.
OmniPage Professional is pricey, but does a pretty respectable job in most instances.
PDF docs can be notoriously difficult to get an accurate OCR read on due to formatting. (It’ll also run you over $400.)
Most products allow you to download a trial version for evaluation. I would try out a variety of them, and try them with different PDF docs to see how each of them works, Then, your only consideration would be which one does the best job for the dollar.
bogdan
July 19, 2012ABBYY FineReader (http://finereader.abbyy.com/professional/) is the best OCR I have worked with. You can try it for free then if it fits you, buy it.
Oron
July 19, 2012You’re absolutely right – Firereader Sprint is pretty good for a bundled package, but it is limited. Finereader Pro is amazing. Accuracy is much better (in my experience, better than OmniPage, the main other contender), layout analysis is near on perfect, and there are various other enhancements (great spell checking, wide range of formats to save in etc). Go for it!
i join the your opinion
July 21, 2012Thank you very much for your advice! I downloaded a trial version of finereader pro and it really did what you say. And upgrade resulted to be much cheaper than common price)
August 16, 2012