PDF OCR giveaway

[Curt]

June 1, 2010 only

This can be a really useful giveaway: PDF OCR by PdfZilla    

Today's giveaway: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr-ocr-pdf/
Normal homepage: http://www.pdfocr.net/

Notice the Build-in Text Editor; this is a very rare feature!

PDF OCR is based on OCR technology to convert scanned PDF paper books and documents into editable electronic text files fast and easily. PDF OCR has a build-in text editor which allows you to edit ocr result text without MS Word. PDF OCR also supports batch mode to OCR all pages of pdf file to text at a time. PDF OCR has a Scanned Image To PDF Converter, which means you can create your own scanned PDF books.

PDF OCR Features

Convert Scanned PDF To Text

PDF OCR Converts Scanned PDF To Text, then you can edit or use the PDF content.
Convert Scanned Images To PDF Document

PDF OCR Converts scanned images to PDF document and creates scanned PDF books.
Easy To Use

PDF OCR Converts PDF To Text Within 3 Clicks.
OCR PDF Fast

PDF OCR will processes 10+ pages in 45 seconds.

Build-in Text Editor

PDF OCR has a build-in text editor which allows you to edit the ocr result text without MS Word or WordPad.
3 PDF OCR Mode

PDF OCR supports 3 PDF OCR mode, single page, page range and All page ocr(batch).
10+ Languages Supported

Besides English, PDF OCR Also supports German, French, Spanish, Italian and many Languages else.



What is PDF OCR?

PDF OCR is based on OCR technology to convert scanned PDF paper books and documents into editable electronic text files fast and easily. PDF OCR has a build-in text editor which allows you to edit ocr result text without MS Word. PDF OCR also supports batch mode to OCR all pages of pdf file to text at a time. PDF OCR has a Scanned Image To PDF Converter, which means you can create your own scanned PDF books.

Edited:

However:
the text in this screenshot is not about the GUI, but about the file's language
... PDF OCR can only understand a certain number of fonts and laguages.  




The text editor itself is actually a standard wordpad.exe that comes with the installation.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr-ocr-pdf/

[Shades]

After processing a big document (258 pages) it failed to open in Wordpad and the created content was lost. In my experience it is a nice concept, but too unstable for any practical use.

[Target]

FWIW, I've been using this and I've found it useful

I generally only use it to extract part of the text rather than the whole document but so far it's been fine (though I have found a couple of instances where it couldn't read a document - I've put that down to something flakey in the PDF rather than something in the application)

downside is you get the text sans formatting, so you need to go through and clean it up manually.

[lanux128]

as with any light-weight OCR reader, this app is handy for a quick conversion of standard documents with almost no graphics..