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OCR - Freeware and Shareware

Microsoft Office Document Imaging 2003 (MODI) Object Model and Viewer OCX Control

The free (with Microsoft Office 2003) Microsoft Office Document Imaging 2003 (MODI) Object Model and Viewer OCX Control provides in-built OCR technology from ScanSoft. The OCR engine can recognize text in images and the recognized text can then be exported for external use.

The Object Model and Viewer OCX Control ships for free with Microsoft Office 2003 and also provides other imaging functionality like displaying and rotating images.

WOCAR

A Microsoft Windows based OCR package developed by Cyril Cambien. This OCR
software is TWAIN-compliant and reads TIFF images.

This OCR software is available at:
http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/graphics/wocar25.zip

OCRchie

This OCR package was originally developed by Kathey Marsden at U.C. Berkley as part
of a senior project.

This OCR package is available with supporting documentation at:
http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/kathey/ocrchie.html

Cal Poly OCR

This OCR software was developed as a class project at Cal Poly SLO (California
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).

This OCR software is available at:
ftp://ftp.csc.calpoly.edu/pub/ocr/
http://documents.cfar.umd.edu/ocr

Xocr

This is OCR freeware developed by Martin Bauer martin_bauer@s2.maus.de. There are
two versions of this software - English and German.

This OCR software is available at:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/graphics/
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/sunsite/X11/xapps/graphics/

ComCom: Public Domain OCR Software for the PC

http://www.comcomsystems.com/image.html
ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub3/simtel-win3/fax/elaicr19.zip
ftp://ftp.intnet.net/pub/WINDOWS/OCR.Software/elaicr19.exe

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