![]() ![]() 'Copy selection to clipboard' this will place the selected image onto the Windows clipboard so now we can just paste the image into Word (Tip: paste the image into a text box then you can position it easily) FreeOCR FreeOCRĤ) Now clear the text window and do the same for the second column FreeOCRĥ) Now draw a box around the photo to select the image, then press the selection button and choose I am going to use MS Word to recreate the document but you could use Open Office or publisher, in fact any program that supports columns and photos.ġ) now to start off I am just going to OCR the page titleĢ) Then press the Export to Word button which will open up a new document with the title in it, if you are not using Word then just open a new document and copy and paste the text.ģ) Next I have selected and OCR 'ed the first column also I pressed the 'remove line breaks button' then in Word created a new Text Box (Insert menu on Word) and copy and pasted the text into it as shown below. This is a PDF with a fake UFO report you can download the file HERE if you want to try (you may need to right-click and choose 'save link as' or 'save target as' How to OCR a document containing images and columns This is handy if you just want to get the text from one region of the page. You can draw a box around part of the image using your mouse and then OCR the current page. ![]() You can copy and paste the text into any other Windows application or press one of the export buttons on the text toolbar. The image is shown on the left and the OCR text on the right ![]() Press the OCR button and choose if you want to process the current page or the whole document. Open PDF - Use to import a scanned PDF document. FreeOCR supports multi page Tiff documents. Open - Use to load an image such as Tiff, Jpeg, Bmp. Scan - Use to Scan a paper image, this requires a Twain compatible scanner. ![]() FreeOCR outputs plain text and can export directly to Microsoft Word format.įreeOCR is very simple to use and all of the buttons have a description if you hover your mouse over them. FreeOCR supports scanning from most Twain scanners and can also open most scanned PDF's and multi page Tiff images as well as popular image file formats. ![]()
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