The scanning takes far longer than the conversion and copying.Obviously, if you are looking to scan books or multiple page docs on a regular basis, use a full featured app - but none of these are free.”
If you scan hard copy docs one page at a time to a PDF, it takes only a few seconds each to convert and drag each page of text into a continuous Pages or Word doc. If you're a home user that needs to convert a few small documents once in a while, then I say don't waste your money on something with more features. “This is a very simple and straightforward little app. “Simple and easy to use OCR app that I find very useful for my needs, but does have limitations.”Ģ.
“that! It's free, it's easy, and Google OCR is pretty darn good! I had to translate an instruction manual in German, and G.Docs has allowed me to upload the PDF, translate to text, then translation into English! Very sweet, and almost instantaneous.Very good alternative that not many people are aware of.” When you go to upload a file, it'll give you the option to convert it to text.”ģ.
“Google Docs now has OCR capabilities when you upload a PDF file. “A free Google application that converts scanned documents to text in PDF”.Ģ.