When you scan a document that has text or numeric data on it, you are able to read and understand what is written in the scanned image. However, to a computer, the resulting image file is just as meaningless an assortment of pixels as a landscape photo. In order to transform this information into an editable format that you can search through, copy, and modify without retyping it manually, you will need the an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
There is a wide variety of OCR software available. While they all share the ability to convert images of machine printed (not handwritten) text or numbers into an editable format, the various software often have different features, accuracy, prices, and language options.
Each brand of software offers a different combination of pros and cons and often focuses on separate segments of the market, from private users converting a few pages a week to large businesses that convert thousands of pages per day.
A selection of manufacturers are listed and described below:
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ABBYY is an international company with 14 offices around the globe and headquarters in US (Milpitas), Western Europe (Munich), Eastern Europe (Kiev) and Russia (Moscow).
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ABBYY Software
I.R.I.S. Products & Technologies develops technologies and products for Intelligent Document Recognition and markets its portfolio on a worldwide basis through strong partnerships.
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IRIS Software
Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax has created one of the most powerful family of products for business automation. With products like OmniPage offers you a good versatile OCR packages for small or mid level businesses. And there is an OmniPage Server option for much larger document volumes.
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Tungsten Software
