OCR Softwares
OCR Software for Computers
ABBYY FineReader
ABBYY FineReader® Professional is an award-winning OCR software that creates editable, searchable files and e-books from scans of paper documents, PDFs and digital photographs. More than 20 million people over the world use ABBYY FineReader at home and office for text recognition and document processing. New levels of speed and accuracy deliver unmatched recognition and conversion, virtually eliminating retyping or reformatting.
Kurzweil Education Systems
Kurzweil is an award-winning scan and read software that makes printed or electronic text accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. It combines traditional reading machine technologies such as scanning, image processing, and text-to-speech with communication and productivity tools to ease and enhance users' reading, writing, and learning experiences. The software speaks text aloud in a variety of natural-sounding voices that can be modified to individual preferences. In addition, the software gives users the ability to write and edit documents, and to complete simple forms independently. It includes features for note taking, summarizing content, and outlining text.
Convenient OCR for Jaws
Frequently, you will encounter images that contain textual information. These can include a PDF file, the setup screen of an application, or the menu of selections for a DVD movie. While these images contain text that is readable by a sighted person, JAWS is unable to read the text as it is part of the image. The Convenient OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature enables you to access any image on the screen that includes text. With just a few simple keystrokes, JAWS will recognize the image in a matter of seconds and activate the JAWS cursor so you can navigate the resulting text. The recognized text will be in the same location as the actual image on the screen. In order to differentiate the recognized text from other text that may be in the window, JAWS will use a different voice when it encounters the recognized text. When you activate the PC cursor, or switch to another application or dialog box, the text is removed and you will need to perform the OCR again.
OpenBook Scanning and Reading Software
OpenBook® converts printed documents or graphic-based text into an electronic text format on your PC, using quality speech and the latest optical character recognition (OCR) technology. OpenBook utilizes both Nuance OmniPage® and ABBYY FineReader® OCR engines to bring you the most accurate text recognition available. You also can choose between two leading text-to-speech software synthesizers: RealSpeak® Solo (natural, human-sounding voices) or Eloquence (efficient synthesized speech that often is preferred for editing and document skimming).
OpenBook Scanning and Reading Software
OmniPage
OmniPage was one of the first OCR programs to run on personal computers. It was developed in the late 1980s and sold by Caere Corporation, a company headed by Robert Noyce. The original developers were Philip Bernzott, John Dilworth, David George, Bryan Higgins, and Jeremy Knight. Caere was acquired by ScanSoft in 2000. ScanSoft acquired Nuance Communications in 2005, and took over its name. OmniPage supports more than 120 different languages.
OCR System For Hindi And Gurumukhi scripts
Recognition of Indian language scripts is a challenging problem and work towards the development of a complete OCR system for Indian language scripts is still in its infancy. Complete OCR systems have recently been developed for Devanagari, Bangla and Gurumukhi scripts. A multi-font Gurmukhi OCR for printed text with an accuracy rate exceeding 96% at the character level is presented. A combination of local and global structural features is used for the feature extraction process, aimed at capturing the geometrical and topological features of the characters. For classification, we have implemented a multi-stage classification scheme in which the binary tree and k-nearest neighbor classifiers have been used in a hierarchical fashion.
OCR System For Hindi And Gurumukhi scripts
Hindi OCR, Marathi OCR, and Sanskrit OCR
Hindi OCR, Marathi OCR, and Sanskrit OCR are OCR programs for converting printed Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit texts into digital, editable text documents in Devanagari-Unicode format. OCR ("optical character recognition") programs take scanned Devanagari text and transform it automatically into computer readable text files.
Hindi OCR, Marathi OCR, and Sanskrit OCR
OCR Softwares for Mobile
KNFB Reader
K–NFB Reading Technology, Inc. is a joint venture between Kurzweil Technologies, headed by CEO Ray Kurzweil, a thirty-year innovator and pioneer in assistive technologies and the inventor of the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind; and the National Federation of the Blind, the largest, most influential membership organization of blind people in the United States. K–NFB Reading Technology creates products that revolutionize access to print for anyone who has difficulty seeing or reading print, including the blind and learning disabled. Our world-renowned reading software has been especially designed for and paired with the Nokia mobile phones to create the smallest text-to-speech reading devices in history, the knfbReader Mobile and the kReader Mobile.