March 19, 2012
Believe it or not, some people still print documents to physical pieces of paper. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software takes those printed documents and converts them right back into machine-readable text. We've found some of the best free OCR tools and compared them for you here. No OCR program is perfect, so you'll have to double check the results and fix a few problems.
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March 12, 2012
very so often, an application comes along that really makes you think how awesome technology can be. ABBYY Textgrabber and Translator for iOS is one of those apps. We have 25 copies of ABBYY Textgrabber and Translator up for grabs this week. Read on to find out more about the app and how you can win a free copy.
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August 25, 2011
Get your massive collection of academic papers under control so you can get to work actually writing. Qiqqa is a document management program built from the ground up for academics, making it a must-have tool for students and professors everywhere. Set Qiqqa up now and be ready to head back to school.
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July 22, 2010
IrfanView is a compact graphic viewer for Windows. It’s small, fast, and offers an incredible amount of features. Best of all, it’s freeware. Per default, IrfanView comes with some basic features, including multi-language support, a large number of supported file formats, paint options, slideshow capability, batch conversion, and a lot more. The application can be [...]
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June 29, 2010
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of converting text captured in an image into a text document. This procedure is rarely flawless since little irregularities in the image, think of a newspaper scan, may cause the OCR software to make mistakes. Hence, spell checking is an indispensable step in completing any OCR job. Unfortunately, [...]
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May 4, 2010
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. The technology dates back to the late 1920′s, when the first OCR patent was issued in Germany. Today OCR is mainly used to convert scanned documents into text. It can come in quite handy if you want to use text from an image or edit a scanned document. Within [...]
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April 22, 2010
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me why they could not edit a block of text in Microsoft Word I would be rich. A lot of times people will include images of text within their document. Maybe they took a screenshot of a block of text or they inserted an image [...]
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November 6, 2009
The world of business is a tough one indeed. Anyone will tell you that. From the guys at the top earning billions per year to the lowly freelancer, tucked away in a small home office. The big jobs are often the easiest. There’s nothing like landing a huge contract or finishing off that job you [...]
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October 14, 2009
So you have some important data all caught up in a PDF file. A PDF is a document that has been committed to its format and most likely cannot be opened for editing or copying unless the author has allowed that. How do you convert that PDF to text? You could print it and try [...]
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August 25, 2009
Quite frankly, I wish I knew about this simple way to use freely available OCR software back in my school days. Of course, we didn’t have camera mobile phones or inexpensive Digicams, but wouldn’t it have saved hours of copying notes! Ah, modern technology is wonderful; take a scanned image (or take a snap using [...]
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March 24, 2009
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is cool – the thing that lets you analyze an image and recognize the text within the image. Something that you can do with Evernote. However what if you want to do it for some of your own images? Of course you can use Evernote or you can use JOCR. A [...]
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