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FreeOCR vs OCRmyPDF

A side-by-side look at FreeOCR and OCRmyPDF. 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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OCRmyPDF

OCRmyPDF

Office & Productivity

OCRmyPDF is an open source command-line program and Python library that applies optical character recognition (OCR) to PDF documents. It takes an existing PDF as input and generates a new searchable PDF as output with an invisible text layer over images.

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