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FreeOCR vs Traditional Ex - Vi editor

A side-by-side look at FreeOCR and Traditional Ex - Vi editor. 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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Traditional Ex - Vi editor

Traditional Ex - Vi editor

Development

The vi editor (short for visual editor) is a classic, ubiquitous text editor common to Unix-like systems. It has a modal, command-based interface, and supports extensive key bindings and scripting. It excels at text editing productivity once the user knows the commands.

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