In order to extract text from images, we need special type of software program that is equipped with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. This kind of software can detect text on images like JPG, BMP, TIFF and provide us the editable text.

Actually it is quite hard when you have to extract text from a huge or bulk quantity of images. Basically, this type of OCR program transforms the image files by a full analysis and provides text in computer readable format.

The concept of OCR stands upon identifying text against the background color pixels. But, the situation gets complicated when the image is noisy and text pixels are not clearly markable. To avoid this kind of problem, you can scan the document as TIFF image format rather then using JPG or BMP format, because TIFF image maintains a very good quality.

There are many OCR software available in market but most of those are commercial and highly priced. Before choosing any OCR software you must keep following points in mind …

• Find Accuracy Rate of that software thorough review
• Multi-engine selection method
• Ability to operate on bulk/ multiple images
• Must have support for different languages (depends on you need)
• Must provide support for PDF and make it searchable
• Speed of operation
• User interface should be supported for novice users

You can choose any of the following OCR software that suits you need.

• FineReader
• ABBYY FineReader
• OmniPage
• ReadIRIS
• TextBridge

All above mentioned OCR software has very good accuracy level. Also, you may think about ReadIRIS if your budget is not that high. ReadIRIS is considered to be the one best under $150 mark.

Now, if you are hunting for a Freeware to do your personal work then stop searching elsewhere and start working with SimpleOCR today. Simple OCR is 100% freeware and without any kind of limitation.

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