Optical Character Recognition(OCR) is a technology that is developed by the IT industries which has brought a revolutionary changes in office documentation process. With this process a document that is there in image format can be converted in to text format document which can be edited further by text editors. This will certainly save a lot of time typing the document manually.
Many gaints in IT industry spending a lot of time and money on research to improve the OCR technology an improve the quality of conversion. Google search also is implementing this technology for indexing scanned pdf format files on websites.
There are many OCR softwares available in market for commercial and personal use. Some OCR softwares are also available as free versions. Abbyy Fine Reader is One of the most powerful OCR Softwares which is a commercial version but most effective with its excellent and easy interface and multi lingual suppurt. Adobe also supports this technology with its Acrobat Professional software which converts scanned image to PDF format.
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