FreeOCR Reviews & Product Details

It is a free desktop application to recognize the characters from either image or a PDF document and extract the text in a reusable format. It has a straightforward interface. The completeness ratio of extracted text is fair enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The extracts are often text is often spread with multiple spaces between words that must be dealt with manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is extemely useful tool to convert the image into text format to rewrite and usable content. FreeOCR interface are uncomplicated and easy to use for every one. It also convert PDF to text Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing to dislike in this application, but it allows only one image at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is free to download, install and use on any windows system. It is fast and straightforward in recognizing the text from images or pdf files. You can export the converted text directly to word or excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The quality of output text seeks improvement. It must be ported to other operating systems as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use and implement. Provide accurate results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing so far. All features have been useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very, very easy to use and has an excellent free version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its appearance is a bit old fashined and sometimes it takes a while to load files from the computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

First and foremost, it's FREE!

And it does it's job decently enough for you to do what you specifically need to do which for me, is transcribing pdfs to text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The scanning algorithm has difficulty when transcribing slides across columns, and also reading text from inverted contrasts (ie white text within a coloured text box) without manual intervention like highlighting the aforementioned areas. The transcribing isn't 100% accurate but that's not unexpected from most OCRs anyway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Free OCR is the best software to translate my PDF docs to text for editing, I use it every time and it has never disappointed me, it's all about that convenience to be able to convert the docs flexibly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I may need to correct a few error as it may not convert the texts 100 % but overall its lit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the ease of use of the app, the learning curve is low, the few resources it consumes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

that is discontinued, not advancing recently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's simple and can be done using their tool either online or using a downloadable desktop version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really, for a free version it has everything I would expect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a logical layout and I found it very easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Like most OCR applications, it does struggle with some special characters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.