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Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/28/2021

"my Free OCR experience"

4/5

What do you like best about FreeOCR?

ability to convert from images to readable text Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreeOCR?

some non-English characters get recognized incorrectly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jose C.

Title Examiner

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/3/2019

"FreeOCR is great for scans."

5/5

What do you like best about FreeOCR?

This program is very user friendly and I can work on all my scans using it. I like how it interfaces directly with scanners in addition to importing image files and extracts text into a box from which you can cut and paste. The program is extremely easy to use and works well if all you want is text. It even extracts text from PDFs, though it exports only to text. I love how many of my clients will send me a scanned documents and all I need to do is convert it to the ocr to where I can copy and past the words into whatever program I am using. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreeOCR?

I do not like that you can only process one image at a time. Working in the real estate industry I deal with multiple documents, which many are scans of contracts/etc., so it would greatly help if I were able to process multiple images. I also wish that I could be able to convert and ocr more than one file at one time because I work with several documents at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreeOCR:

If you are looking to convert scans into a word file I highly recommend this product. It works great for whenever you are needing to simply copy and past words from a document that has been scanned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FreeOCR solving and how is that benefiting you?

I do not like that FreeOCR processes only one image at a time, but it does OCR multi-page PDFs. There are no limits on file size. Also, FreeOCR can create Word and RTF documents from the text it extracts, but it's just pasted text.There's no attempt to reconstruct the document or place images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Francy Matilde A.

Chief Accountant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/21/2019

"A good OCR converter"

5/5

What do you like best about FreeOCR?

Currently the format of scanned documents is one of the most used in all companies to reduce costs on paper, although there are many programs that allow us to manage this type of files are very few that allow us to convert scanned documents to text. FreeOCR is an application that helps us in the task of that conversion, because it takes the scanned document and transforms it into editable text so that the user can handle it in an easier way. This conversion is very fast and simple and without hardly the intervention of the user, this does not mean that it is 100% good, according to my experience FreeOCR has a success rate in the conversion of the scanned documents approximately 70-80%.

This helps us in the task of not having to transcribe those documents in their entirety, but only some paragraphs or simply giving them the format we think is necessary and converting these documents into perfectly legible Word files or other text editors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreeOCR?

The success rate in the conversion of the file to text is approximately 70-80%, which means having to review the document in its entirety and compare with the source to verify the missing text Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreeOCR:

I recommend the use of this software because it is free and does not consume resources in your system, besides the benefit of the time saved when converting scanned documents into text is invaluable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FreeOCR solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me to speed up the transcription time for each of the scanned documents that are required to pass to text, this is very important since time = Money. So in some way I reduce effort and costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/27/2019

"Extracting Data from unstructured documents"

4/5

What do you like best about FreeOCR?

1. Interface and look and feel of tool is very good

2. Very easy to use and Extracts data from PDF in editable mode.

3. Scanning, saving in jpeg and pdf exraction and other things are all available in one portal

4, Available in many languages

5.Easy to install Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreeOCR?

Extraction of PDF is not in structured manner. Therefore cannot use the document for Machine Learning purpose and AI. But easy to use for documentation purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.