Editor's review
This is a command line tool that does OCR recognition of scanned images of documents and then turn them into editable material.
VeryPDF PDF to Word OCR Converter is a Command Line application that uses Optical Character Recognition technology. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a visual recognition process that turns printed or written text into an electronic character-based file. A document that is scanned and converted into a PDF document can be converted to electronic character-based file that is editable. The original scanned images could be in a range of image formats including TIFF, BMP, PNG, JPG, PCX, TGA, etc. The quality of these images also is important. Better, sharper the images are, higher is the probability of correct recognition. It is also necessary that there be minimal dots and smudges etc. Such image noises needs to be cleaned up prior to submission to the recognition process.
There`s another pre-processing that needs to be done. That is to correct any skew that may exist in the image, when the recognition can go wrong again. It is this issue of how correct the recognition is, is the main issue with all OCR programs. The recognition rates are not all that high yet, really good ones get past 90% level of recognition. Thus for a large enough document there would be substantial amount of edits to be done after the conversion. So, best thing to do is to check out what kind of success you get with the typical quality of the documents, typical fonts used on them etc. and then acquire the tool. This is a handy tool if you have a large volume of documents that you need converted.
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