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Optical character recognition software, OCR software, is used for the recognition of writing and printing. OCR software is still relatively new, but with increases in computer power and recognition software the accuracy is improving.
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Proprietary software
Abbyy FineReader - growing in the market. In recent years is the default OCR software bundled with many scanner brands.
Cuneiform - famous and indicated by many as the most accurate OCR algorithm.
OmniPage - for years the most recognized OCR and market leader software suite. Owns the current PC Magazine Editor's Choice awarded in 2003.
Readiris - reads European languages, Arabic, Hebrew, Asian languages.
SimpleOCR a relatively simple freeware (supports English, French and Dutch language recognition)
TeleForm - for capturing data from handwritten forms.
TextBridge - bundled with many scanners, simpler and with less resources than its sister product Omnipage.
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Free and open source OCR software
GNU Ocrad "is an OCR ... program based on a feature extraction method".
OOCR OOCR is an OCR program still in development, under the GPL.
phpOCR A base implementation for an OCR tool in PHP
Tesseract is an open source OCR, initially developed by HP, and released under the the Apache License, Version 2.0. It can be compiled using MSVC 6.0 or GCC.
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