Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply.
This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not need your email address.
Just upload your image files. Free-OCR takes either a JPG, GIF, TIFF BMP or PDF (only first page).
The only restriction is that the images must not be larger than 2MB, no wider or higher than 5000 pixels and there is a limit of 10 image uploads per hour.
text and characters from PDF scanned documents (including multipage files), photographs and digital camera captured images. Service allows users to select 28 languages to recognize multilingual documents.
Convert
OCR results directly to your favorite formats including Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Rtf, Html and Txt. Converted documents look exactly like the original - tables, columns, bullets and graphics.
Store
OCRed files online in your secure workspace. Also you can download these files on your PC, edit text and print.
OCR Terminal is a free online Optical Character Recognition service that allows you to convert scanned images and PDFs into editable and text searchable documents. It accurately preserves formatting and layout of documents. Read more
OCR Terminal supports multi-page TIFF, JPEG, GIF, BMP, PDF formats. The formatting of all text in the images is accurately preserved and download is available in .doc, .txt, .rtf, searchable .pdf formats.
20 doc/month
Google Docs can now perform OCR on digital images. You can upload an image containing typewritten or printed text (like a fax document or a scanned newspaper clipping) to your Google Docs account and it will turn that image into editable text.
NewOCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service. NewOCR.com can analyze the text in any image file that you upload, and then convert the text from the image into text that you can easily edit on your computer.
Unlimited uploads, no registration, layout analysis (multi-column text recognition), 29 languages support, image files (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, multipage TIFF) up to 5 MB, multipage PDF documents up to 20 MB
features include on the fly OCR conversion capabilities, over 50 different conversion options and proprietary XPS and PDF conversion abilities that retains formatting, images and text in the selected output format.
online service to OCR by email, can convert directly to excelrussian, english, german, french
Recognized text can be saved in a variety of office formats such as Microsoft Word, Excel, searchable PDF, RTF and others.
Multilingual Recognition - The service supports 37 languages for optical character recognition including documents written in multiple languages.
"FineReader is an all-in-one OCR and PDF software application for increasing business productivity when working with documents. It provides powerful, yet easy-to-use tools to access and modify information locked in paper-based documents and PDFs."
Our gnomes are able to process the following formats: .bmp, .dib, .rle, .dcx, .djvu, .djv, .gif, .jb2, .jbig2, .jp2, .j2k, .jpg, .jpeg, .pcx, .pdf, .png, .tif, .tiff, and .xps.
Best results are ussualy obtained with at least 300dpi, but are gnomes are really good.
These file conversion functions may be used with a PC, Macintosh, or UNIX computer and Netscape Navigator version 3.0 or later and Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later. Macintosh users should use Netscape Navigator. login required.