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Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js) vs FreeOCR

A side-by-side look at Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js) and FreeOCR. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js)

Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js)

Web Browsers

Firefox PDF Viewer (PDF.js) is an open source PDF viewer that is built into Firefox. It allows you to view PDFs directly in the browser without needing an external plugin.

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FreeOCR

FreeOCR

Office & Productivity

FreeOCR is a free open source optical character recognition software for Windows that can extract text from images, such as scanned documents and photos. It can convert these images to a number of editable formats such as doc, txt, and pdf.

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