This is the sort of thing that makes me like Google again. Google just announced work on the open source OCRopus project, a document analysis and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system:The goal of ...

If your OCR needs are small, then this limited but free online service will extract your text just fine. To convert only a few small documents. there’s no need to install a full-blown OCR program. You ...

Open Excel, then open the picture file, use Windows+Shift+S to select the Snipping tool, capture the relevant table, minimise the Photos app, click Data > From Picture and select the image, and Excel ...

I'm looking for a free [preferably open-source; preferably cross-platform] OCR program that is actually worth using. I've tried a few out today, and haven't been too happy with the results - as in if ...