Desktop OCR To Word
FineReader Professional is
a highly accurate and easy to use OCR To Word that includes host of
features including digital camera OCR, intelligent document layouts,
image enhancement, barcode recognition, and command line integration.
FineReader is our pick for OCR To Word because its document layout
retention will save you much time in reformatting documents you convert
for editing.
FineReader Corporate Edition
offers unique concurrent licensing that makes it possible for many users
who need occasional use of OCR to share a small pool of active licenses.
With accuracy comparable to OmniPage, superior technical support
services, and a user interface that many users find preferable, we think
FineReader Corporate is the best choice of OCR To Word for business
Affordable OCR To Word for business
and
home users. ReadIRIS Pro provides a very accurate OCR
recognition rate at a low cost, but still has some of the advanced
features that higher priced professional OCR To Word includes.
The main limitation is that the Pro version is limited to documents under 50
pages.
Adds support for files over 50 pages, business card recognition, as well as automatic processing of hot folders.
OmniPage Standard is a low-cost version of OmniPage designed for personal
users. It has the same recognition capabilities as OmniPage Pro, but does not
offer advanced features like batch processing and forms recognition.
Compare OmniPage Standard to Pro.
OmniPage Pro 18 has several unique features that make it stand out for a variety
of applications. Some of these include auto-redaction, SharePoint integration,
automatic filing with barcodes, PDF auto-bookmarking, form data collection and
MFP support. Most of these new features are not available in the Standard edition.
Compare OmniPage Standard to Pro.
PdfCompressor Desktop Edition (OCR) is a more economical version of PdfCompressor Professional
(OCR), designed for lower-volume users. This version requires files to be processed individually and files
must not exceed 100 pages. An excellent choice for someone who needs the power, but not the volume.
PdfCompressor produces the most efficient image documents possible for high volume scanning
environments by combining highly accurate OCR, advanced file compression, and batch PDF
conversion. PdfCompressor can compress scans by a factor of 10-100, enabling documents to be stored,
transmitted, accessed, and hosted more efficiently and less expensively.
Arabic, Farsi & Hebrew OCR To Word

ReadIRIS Pro OCR To Word now includes Arabic (PC version only), Farsi, and Hebrew character recognition in their base package. No special version or add-on is required.
Adds the ability to recognize files over 50 pages, business cards
and monitor a hot folder to automatically process images in the
background.
Enables Arabic and Farsi character recognition in the IRISDocument high-volume server OCR solution.
FineReader Professional 11 supports Hebrew character recognition and now has an optional version with additional Arabic character recognition.
FineReader Corporate also supports Hebrew character recognition and now has an optional version with additional Arabic character recognition.
Hebrew and Arabic languages are available as an add-on to the ABBYY Recognition Server high-volume OCR solution.
NovoVerus supports an exceptionally wide range of Roman, Asian, Cyrillic and Middle Eastern languages, including challenging global languages like Arabic, Persian (Farsi, Dari), Pashto, Hebrew, Urdu, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Korean, Russian, English and Spanish.
PDF Converters
ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0's intuitive, versatile, multilingual tool enables you to
easily convert any type of PDF into editable formats with the original layout and formatting retained.
PdfCompressor Desktop Edition (OCR) is a more economical version of
PdfCompressor Professional (OCR), designed for lower-volume users.
Using the latest in image compression technology PdfCompressor
makes the most compact, Web-friendly PDF files available.
Nuance PDF Converter Professional is the complete PDF solution for business
users, offering an unmatched combination of creation, editing and conversion features.
Server OCR To Word
SimpleIndex combines ABBYY FineReader OCR technology with powerful pattern
matching features to extract useful data from OCR text and use it to file
documents automatically. Perfect for small to mid-sized businesses that
need to digitize many documents at once. Also supports other labor-saving
technologies like barcode recognition,
zone OCR and database lookups.
OCR results can be saved to text, MS Word or searchable
PDF and PDF/A files. Data can be saved to CSV (Excel), any SQL database,
embedded in folders and filenames or used as file SharePoint 2010 metadata.
Affordable desktop and server licensing with no pay-per-click makes
SimpleIndex the most cost effective software of its kind!
Innovative server-based OCR To Word for
performing centralized enterprise-wide OCR processing. Processor license
allows anyone on the network to submit files for OCR. Complex XML job
specifications can be submitted to control output. Support available for
Arabic and Asian languages.
IRISDocument Server is a lower cost solution compared to
recognition server, but lacks some of the more advanced features and has slightly lower
accuracy.
Several versions are available with varying monthly page processing limitations, letting you scale your solution to meet
your budget requirements.
Asian,
Arabic and
Hebrew
language packs are also available.
Innovative server-based OCR To Word
CVISION Maestro Recognition Server has been engineered and designed for industrial strength, corporate
volume scanning & OCR needs. Maestro provides a flexible OCR solution delivered from a centralized server
which enables organizations to easily integrate into their existing document and imaging workflow, while
providing multiple workflow accessibility allowing users to perform many image processing functions beyond
OCR.
Designed for service bureaus and large scanning departments, PaperVision Capture OCR by Digitech brings an uprecedented
level of efficiency and power to information capture. Work with everything, implement any custom
process you want, and track any statistic you need. Provides index value population and document break
insertion as an automated process.
Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Thai OCR To Word

FineReader Professional 11 includes Chinese, Japanese, and Thai character recognition in their base
package. No special version or add-on is required.
FineReader Corporate includes
Chinese, Japanese, and Thai character recognition in their base
package. No special version or add-on is required.
ReadIRIS Pro OCR To Word now includes Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean character recognition in their base
package. No special version or add-on is required.
ReadIRIS Corporate version is the same as Pro but with the
ability to recognize files over 50 pages, business cards
and monitor a hot folder to automatically process images in the
background.
ReadIRIS Pro OCR To Word for Mac now includes Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean character recognition in their base
package. No special version or add-on is required.
ReadIRIS Corporate version for Mac is the same as Pro but with the
ability to recognize files over 50 pages, business cards
and monitor a hot folder to automatically process images in the
background.
Add-on that enables Chinese, Japanese and Korean character recognition in the IRISDocument server OCR solution.
Add-on license is available for ABBYY Recognition Server to add
Chinese, Japanese & Korean (CJK) language support. Thai
character recognition language pack is also available, but is sold
separately from CJK.
Apple Mac OCR To Word
ABBYY FineReader Express is an easy to use OCR To Word for
creating editable and searchable files from scanned documents,
PDFs and digital camera images. The one-click conversion feature
instantly turns paper documents into various electronic formats,
including RTF Format, Excel, and searchable PDF.
OmniPage OCR To Word for Macintosh
users. This version does not use the latest OmniPage engine, but
provides good accuracy nonetheless. Once again, Nuance does not
make a demo download available.
Affordable OCR To Word for
Macintosh users using the latest version of the
IRIS OCR engine.
Adds support for files over 50 pages, business card recognition,
as well as automatic processing of hot folders.
Personal OCR To Word
The classic TextBridge engine is still available as
an affordable alternative to high priced engines. It gives you an
ultra-low cost, yet still accurate OCR To Word with out all the extra
features. Allows you to output to web pages, Word documents and
more while retaining the layout of the page, but does not include PDF
output.
**NOT Compatible with Windows Vista**
Our own freeware OCR application provides acceptable accuracy for those who just need to
convert a few pages and can't justify the cost of commercial OCR
software. Developers can use the
command-line and
SDK versions to integrate SimpleOCR with their custom applications.