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OCR Terminal

Don’t have an OCR application handy at your place of work to read the text of a scanned page? No problem.

What is OCR Terminal?

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.

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March 19th, 2009 | Category: Technology, Web Applications | Subscribe to comments | Both comments and pings are currently closed

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FREE “OCR Terminal” Software Online…03.20.09 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog:
March 20th, 2009 at 8:28 am
[...] Software Online…03.20.09 20 03 2009 David Rothman posted the helpful post about OCR Terminal below. I haven’t tried it out but it would be great if it works well. When I was seeking [...]
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Nancy C.:
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Interesting! I tried converting a 1-page pdf downloaded from an online newsletter. Color print did not come through accurately so the logo, a combined "r + n" looked like "n." A photo of the author did not transfer, and only half of the caption came through. But the rest of the text was perfect! thanks!

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