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FreeOCR vs Lemur Project

A side-by-side look at FreeOCR and Lemur Project. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

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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Lemur Project

Lemur Project

Development

The Lemur Project is an open source web crawler that allows users to build customized crawlers to archive and analyze web content. It is developed by the University of Massachusetts and Carnegie Mellon University.

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