Tool to convert jpeg files to text

[Shmuel Wolfson]

Here's a free website that does OCR:
http://www.free-ocr.com/

Here's a free program for OCR:
http://www.simpleocr.com/

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133


On 11/16/2011 6:32 PM, Stuart Rogers wrote:
> On 16/11/2011 10:29 AM, Owen, Clint wrote:
>> OCR is the only possible solution, as there is no text information in a
>> JPG.
>> I would convert the manual to PDF, then try the built in OCR in a recent
>> version of Acrobat or a dedicated tool, such as Omnipage.
>
>
> I have found Acrobat's OCR to be cumbersome and not particularly 
> accurate.  Older versions of MS Word (up to 2007) included Document 
> Imaging in the Office > Tools menu; apparently OneNote that comes with 
> current Office installations does OCR automatically on any image 
> containing text:
>
> http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/10/01/Free-OCR-software_3F00_-You-may-already-have-it_2E002E002E00_.aspx 
>
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14595/ocr-anything-with-onenote-2007-and-2010/ 
>
>
> HTH,
>