Free OCR for Everyone

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What Is OCR?

Documents containing text that are scanned into a computer are usually saved to an image format. In these image formats the computer cannot tell the difference between the text and the rest of the image and so the text is not editable or searchable. OCR extracts the text from these images so that it can be edited and searched. See "Step by Step Instructions" below for an example.

A Billion Billion has implemented OCR (Optical Character Recognition) using Tesseract OCR.

How to Use It

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Currently you can only OCR documents that are in TIFF format. After you upload a TIFF file to your folder (see help for instructions) you will see an "OCR Document" tab above the file. Click this and A Billion Billion will OCR your document and take you to the text results. You can now save this text file to disk, copy and paste the results to another document or just leave them for future editing and searching. You will be able to search for the text using the search box.

Step by Step Instructions

In this example example we will upload the following TIFF image that is shipped with Tesseract:

1) When viewing a TIFF file an "OCR Document" tab will appear above the file. Click this to OCR the image:

 
2) A new text file will then be created with the OCR Results:

That's it. You're done. Now wasn't that easy?