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PDF OCR vs ZXing

A side-by-side look at PDF OCR and ZXing. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

PDF OCR

PDF OCR

Office & Productivity

PDF OCR software allows you to extract text from scanned PDF documents and image-based PDFs, making the text searchable and editable. It uses optical character recognition (OCR) to identify text in images and convert it into selectable and editable text.

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ZXing

ZXing

Development

ZXing (pronounced 'zebra crossing') is an open source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library implemented in Java. It can scan and decode a variety of barcode types and formats.

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