# SmartOCR Reviews
**Vendor:** SmartSoft  
**Category:** [OCR Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/ocr)  
**Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 3
## About SmartOCR
A tool with built-in text editor that converts scanned images into searchable texts while preserving the original layout & formatting.



## SmartOCR Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users value the **high accuracy** of SmartOCR in digitizing and converting historical documents into editable formats. (1 reviews)
- Users value the **transformative AI technology** of SmartOCR, enabling seamless digitization and format retention of documents. (1 reviews)
- Users value the **efficient document conversion** of SmartOCR, effectively transforming historical texts into editable formats while preserving layout. (1 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **ease of use** of SmartOCR, simplifying the digitization of historical documents effortlessly. (1 reviews)
- Users find SmartOCR to be **highly effective for digitizing historical documents** , converting scans into editable, formatted files seamlessly. (1 reviews)

**What users dislike:**

- Users report **OCR issues** with SmartOCR, particularly with difficult records and varied text formats affecting accuracy. (1 reviews)
- Users find that SmartOCR has a **poor understanding** of complex documents, leading to issues with processing text accurately. (1 reviews)

## SmartOCR Reviews
  ### 1. Useful for digitizing simple text documents

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Huyen Q. | Lead Data Scientist, Insurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2024

**What do you like best about SmartOCR?**

SmartOCR has great significance in the process of digitization of historical document. The application is very useful in transforming text documents scanned, including simple letters, into editable files while retaining the format.

**What do you dislike about SmartOCR?**

These results make me think that SmartOCR struggles when it has to process difficult records.  Text in different columns and having handwriting, special characters, etc may cause problem to the tool while extracting the text.

**What problems is SmartOCR solving and how is that benefiting you?**

SmartOCR has the feature of enhancing the speed of conversion of history documents from scanned images into editable text format.  The fact that the software maintains the real layout and at the same time guarantees the authenticity of the digital collection.

  ### 2. Review for SmartOCR

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2024

**What do you like best about SmartOCR?**

Best for PDF fil, Image for making it editable.

**What do you dislike about SmartOCR?**

UI is not that comfortable to use, rest is Okay.

**What problems is SmartOCR solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Convert scanned text, PDF and image into editableDocuments for me it supre useful.

  ### 3. A good utility for OCR

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Karan S. | Programmer Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2020

**What do you like best about SmartOCR?**

SmartOCR is one of the best tool which provide a utility of object character recognition. It helps in obtaining characters from pictures and give best solution to the user.

**What do you dislike about SmartOCR?**

So far there is nothing i disliked about this. But sometimes i have experienced a slowness while obtaining the characters

**What problems is SmartOCR solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We were building a utility to obtain character from pictures in one of our application to use it further in application. And this product helped us a lot while obtaining  those characters.


## SmartOCR Discussions
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## SmartOCR Features
**Operating System**
- PC Operating System
- Mac Operating System
- Linux Operating System

**Document Processing**
- File Type
- Data Extraction
- Mobile Capability
- Intelligent Processing
- Image Enhancement

**Platform Additional Functionality**
- Integration
- File Conversion
- Windows and Mac

**Agentic AI - OCR**
- Autonomous Task Execution

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