Optical Character Recognition Software

Dan Bailey, president • June 21, 2010

Q: I’m trying to scan a document to a Word file, I think I need OCR software, what do you recommend?

A: There are a couple of good choices for OCR – the least expensive accurate package appears to be ABBYY FineReader Express , which sells for $49.99. They have a professional edition as well, which is more full-featured, but I have always just used the express version, and been quite happy with it, as the pro edition costs $400.

You’ll notice on the ABBYY web page that they sell a product called ABBYY PDF Transformer. I don’t recommend that product, but rather a product called “ PDFCreator ” or “Cute PDF”. Both of these products are excellent substitutes for the ABBYY product, so you don’t need to spend the extra money.

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