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OCR Software

Software that converts scanned documents and photos of text into editable, searchable text.

Also searched as: optical character recognition · scan to text

What it does

  • Scan to searchable PDF
  • Handwriting recognition
  • Batch processing
  • Many languages

Who uses it

Offices digitizing paper, libraries, legal and records teams.

Well-known examples

Adobe Acrobat · ABBYY FineReader · Tesseract · Google Cloud Vision OCR

Questions about OCR software

What is OCR software?

Software that converts scanned documents and photos of text into editable, searchable text.

How is AI changing OCR software?

AI-based OCR reads handwriting and messy scans far better than older engines and can understand what the text means, not just what it says.

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