Part 2
2 – Google OCRWhen converting scanned invoices, reports or images into editable formats, OCR is required. If you are looking for the best free OCR solutions for mac like many others, we collect a list for you: a list of 12 powerful mac free ocr software or services to perform satisfactory OCR on digitized files for 2019-2020. Full List of Mac Free OCR. Apr 24, 2020 Alternatives to CuneiForm for Mac with any license Microsoft OneNote. A digital notebook application that gives people one place to gather notes and information. NoteLedge Cloud is the world's most versatile multimedia note-taking app that allows you to take notes. Adobe Acrobat DC.
Features and Functions:
·Google Docs has integrated OCR and uses the OCR engine used by Google.
·Once the file is uploaded you can get the new text document in the Google Docs.
·It is an all-in one online converter.
·It allows you to upload and convert with the help of mobiles and digital cameras.
Pros:
· It does not have any limit to the number of pages that can be uploaded.
· It is an integrated OCR
· If you have an account in Google, you can easily access this software.
Cons:
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· Thisfree OCR software for Maccannot scan directly from your scanner.
· You need to scan it as an image or PDF file.
· Sometimes has difficulty in understanding the web addresses.
User Review/Comment:
1. 'A free Google application that converts scanned documents to text in PDF'.http://www.yellowwebmonkey.com/how/blog/category/review-blogs-3
2. 'Google Docs now has OCR capabilities when you upload a PDF file. When you go to upload a file, it'll give you the option to convert it to text.'http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/whats-the-best-free-ocr-software-for-mac.683060/
3. '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.'http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/whats-the-best-free-ocr-software-for-mac.683060/
Screenshot:
Ocr Cuneiform For Mac Installer
This comparison of optical character recognition software includes:
- OCR engines, that do the actual character identification
- Layout analysis software, that divide scanned documents into zones suitable for OCR
- Graphical interfaces to one or more OCR engines
- Software development kits that are used to add OCR capabilities to other software (e.g. forms processing applications, document imaging management systems, e-discovery systems, records management solutions)
| Name | Founded year | Latest stable version | Release year | License | Online | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Programming language | SDK? | Languages | Fonts | Output Formats | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Drive OCR or Google Cloud Vision | 2015 | Proprietary | Yes | Browser | Browser | Browser | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | 200+ | All fonts | text | Google blog post [1][2] | ||
| Tesseract | 1985 | 4.1.1 | 2019 | Apache | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | C++, C | Yes | 100+[3] | Any printed font | Text, ALTO, hOCR,[4] PDF, others with different user interfaces[5] or the API | Created by Hewlett-Packard; under further development by Google[6] |
| ABBYY FineReader | 1989 | 15 | 2019 | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | C/C++ | Yes | 192[7] | All fonts | DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPTX, RTF, PDF, HTML, CSV, TXT, ODT, DjVu, EPUB, FB2[8] | ABBYY also supplies SDKs for embedded and mobile devices. Professional, Corporate and Site License Editions for Windows, Express Edition for Mac.[9] |
| E-aksharayan | 2010 | Yes | No | Yes | No | 14 | RTF, TXT, BRL | ||||||||
| Asprise OCR SDK | 1998 | 15 | 2015 | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Java, C#,VB.NET, C/C++/Delphi | Yes | 20+[10] | ? | Plain text, searchable PDF, XML[11] | Java, C#, VB.NET, C/C++/Delphi SDKs for OCR and Barcode recognition on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Unix.[12] |
| AnyDoc Software | 1989 | ? | ? | Proprietary | No | Yes | No | No | No | VBScript | ? | ? | ? | Works with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents. | |
| CuneiForm | 1996 | 1.1 | 2011-04-19 | BSD variant | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | C/C++ | Yes | 28 | Any printed font | HTML, hOCR, native, RTF, TeX, TXT[13] | Enterprise-class system, can save text formatting and recognizes complicated tables of any structure |
| Dynamsoft OCR SDK | 2003 | 8.2 | 2012 | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | C/C++ | Yes | 40+[14] | ? | PDF, TXT | |
| OmniPage | 1970s | 19.2 | 2015 | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | C/C++, C#[15] | Yes | 125[16] | Machine and handprinted fonts | DOC/DOCX XLS/XLSX PPTX RTF PDF PDF/A Searchable PDF HTML Text XML ePUB MP3 | Product of Nuance Communications |
| Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 | 2011 | ? | 2007 | Proprietary | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||
| GOCR | 2000 | 0.52[17] | 2018-10-15 | GPL | Yes[18] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | C | ? | 20+ | ? | ||
| Ocrad | ? | 0.26[19] | 2017-03-31 | GPL | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | C++ | Yes | Latin alphabet | ? | Command line | |
| SmartScore | 1991 | 10.5.8 | 2015-07 | Proprietary | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | For musical scores | |
| Microsoft Office Document Imaging | ? | Office 2007 | 2007 | Proprietary | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Uses OmniPage[citation needed] | |
| Puma.NET | ? | ? | 2009-10-29 | BSD | No | Yes | No | No | No | C# | Yes | 28 | Any printed font | .NET OCR SDK based on Cognitive Technologies' CuneiForm recognition engine. Wraps Puma COM server and provides simplified API for .NET applications | |
| ReadSoft | ? | ? | ? | Proprietary | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Scan, capture and classify business documents such as invoices, forms and purchase orders integrated with business processes. | |
| Scantron | ? | ? | ? | Proprietary | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | For working with localized interfaces, corresponding language support is required. | |
| OCRFeeder | 2009-03 | 0.8.1 | 2014-12-22 | GPL | No | No | No | Yes | No | Python | ? | ? | ? | Features a full user interface and has a command-line tool for automatic operations. Has its own segmentation algorithm but uses system-wide OCR engines like Tesseract or Ocrad | |
| OCRopus | 2007 | 1.3.3 | 2017-12-16 | Apache | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Python | ? | All languages using Latin script (other languages can be trained) | Normal Latin script and Fraktur (other scripts can be trained) | TXT, hOCR,[20] PDF[21] | Pluggable framework under active development, used for Google Books |
| Name | Founded year | Latest stable version | Release year | License | Online | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Programming language | SDK? | Languages | Fonts | Output Formats | Notes |
Evaluation[edit]
Ocr Cuneiform For Mac Versions
· It is an integrated OCR
· If you have an account in Google, you can easily access this software.
Cons:
Getting Started.Jobs, Builds, Matrices and Stages.Installing Dependencies.Programming Languages.Deployments and Uploads.CI Environment Reference.Encrypting Files and Data.Integrations and Notifications.Developer Program.Travis CI Enterprise.This documentation site is open source.The explains how to contribute. Xcode gcc for mac. .What This Guide CoversThis guide explains what packages, tools and settings are available in theTravis macOS CI environment (often referred to as the 'CI environment'). The macOS Build Environment.
· Thisfree OCR software for Maccannot scan directly from your scanner.
· You need to scan it as an image or PDF file.
· Sometimes has difficulty in understanding the web addresses.
User Review/Comment:
1. 'A free Google application that converts scanned documents to text in PDF'.http://www.yellowwebmonkey.com/how/blog/category/review-blogs-3
2. 'Google Docs now has OCR capabilities when you upload a PDF file. When you go to upload a file, it'll give you the option to convert it to text.'http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/whats-the-best-free-ocr-software-for-mac.683060/
3. '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.'http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/whats-the-best-free-ocr-software-for-mac.683060/
Screenshot:
Ocr Cuneiform For Mac Installer
This comparison of optical character recognition software includes:
- OCR engines, that do the actual character identification
- Layout analysis software, that divide scanned documents into zones suitable for OCR
- Graphical interfaces to one or more OCR engines
- Software development kits that are used to add OCR capabilities to other software (e.g. forms processing applications, document imaging management systems, e-discovery systems, records management solutions)
| Name | Founded year | Latest stable version | Release year | License | Online | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Programming language | SDK? | Languages | Fonts | Output Formats | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Drive OCR or Google Cloud Vision | 2015 | Proprietary | Yes | Browser | Browser | Browser | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | 200+ | All fonts | text | Google blog post [1][2] | ||
| Tesseract | 1985 | 4.1.1 | 2019 | Apache | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | C++, C | Yes | 100+[3] | Any printed font | Text, ALTO, hOCR,[4] PDF, others with different user interfaces[5] or the API | Created by Hewlett-Packard; under further development by Google[6] |
| ABBYY FineReader | 1989 | 15 | 2019 | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | C/C++ | Yes | 192[7] | All fonts | DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPTX, RTF, PDF, HTML, CSV, TXT, ODT, DjVu, EPUB, FB2[8] | ABBYY also supplies SDKs for embedded and mobile devices. Professional, Corporate and Site License Editions for Windows, Express Edition for Mac.[9] |
| E-aksharayan | 2010 | Yes | No | Yes | No | 14 | RTF, TXT, BRL | ||||||||
| Asprise OCR SDK | 1998 | 15 | 2015 | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Java, C#,VB.NET, C/C++/Delphi | Yes | 20+[10] | ? | Plain text, searchable PDF, XML[11] | Java, C#, VB.NET, C/C++/Delphi SDKs for OCR and Barcode recognition on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Unix.[12] |
| AnyDoc Software | 1989 | ? | ? | Proprietary | No | Yes | No | No | No | VBScript | ? | ? | ? | Works with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents. | |
| CuneiForm | 1996 | 1.1 | 2011-04-19 | BSD variant | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | C/C++ | Yes | 28 | Any printed font | HTML, hOCR, native, RTF, TeX, TXT[13] | Enterprise-class system, can save text formatting and recognizes complicated tables of any structure |
| Dynamsoft OCR SDK | 2003 | 8.2 | 2012 | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | C/C++ | Yes | 40+[14] | ? | PDF, TXT | |
| OmniPage | 1970s | 19.2 | 2015 | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | C/C++, C#[15] | Yes | 125[16] | Machine and handprinted fonts | DOC/DOCX XLS/XLSX PPTX RTF PDF PDF/A Searchable PDF HTML Text XML ePUB MP3 | Product of Nuance Communications |
| Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 | 2011 | ? | 2007 | Proprietary | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||
| GOCR | 2000 | 0.52[17] | 2018-10-15 | GPL | Yes[18] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | C | ? | 20+ | ? | ||
| Ocrad | ? | 0.26[19] | 2017-03-31 | GPL | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | C++ | Yes | Latin alphabet | ? | Command line | |
| SmartScore | 1991 | 10.5.8 | 2015-07 | Proprietary | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | For musical scores | |
| Microsoft Office Document Imaging | ? | Office 2007 | 2007 | Proprietary | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Uses OmniPage[citation needed] | |
| Puma.NET | ? | ? | 2009-10-29 | BSD | No | Yes | No | No | No | C# | Yes | 28 | Any printed font | .NET OCR SDK based on Cognitive Technologies' CuneiForm recognition engine. Wraps Puma COM server and provides simplified API for .NET applications | |
| ReadSoft | ? | ? | ? | Proprietary | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Scan, capture and classify business documents such as invoices, forms and purchase orders integrated with business processes. | |
| Scantron | ? | ? | ? | Proprietary | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | For working with localized interfaces, corresponding language support is required. | |
| OCRFeeder | 2009-03 | 0.8.1 | 2014-12-22 | GPL | No | No | No | Yes | No | Python | ? | ? | ? | Features a full user interface and has a command-line tool for automatic operations. Has its own segmentation algorithm but uses system-wide OCR engines like Tesseract or Ocrad | |
| OCRopus | 2007 | 1.3.3 | 2017-12-16 | Apache | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Python | ? | All languages using Latin script (other languages can be trained) | Normal Latin script and Fraktur (other scripts can be trained) | TXT, hOCR,[20] PDF[21] | Pluggable framework under active development, used for Google Books |
| Name | Founded year | Latest stable version | Release year | License | Online | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Programming language | SDK? | Languages | Fonts | Output Formats | Notes |
Evaluation[edit]
Ocr Cuneiform For Mac Versions
An analysis of the accuracy and reliability of the OCR packages Google Docs OCR, Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader, and Transym, employing a dataset including 1227 images from 15 different categories concluded Google Docs OCR and ABBYY to be performing better than others.[22]
Ocr Cuneiform For Mac
References[edit]
- ^Dmitriy Genzel; Ashok Popat (May 6, 2015). 'Paper to Digital in 200+ languages'.
- ^Ashok Popat (Sep 4, 2015). 'IEEE SPS: Optical Character Recognition for Most of the World's Languages'.
- ^Based on count of language training files for version 3.04. Available at the download page.
- ^Usage explained in the Tesseract Readme and FAQ
- ^Such as ODF with OCRFeeder
- ^'GitHub - tesseract-ocr/tesseract: Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)'. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
- ^'ABBYY FineReader 14: Technical Specifications'. Finereader.abbyy.com. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
- ^'ABBYY FineReader 11: Technical Specifications'. Finereader.abbyy.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
- ^'Top OCR Software'. Ocrworld.com. 2010-03-30. Archived from the original on 2017-02-23. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
- ^'Asprise OCR SDK Features'. asprise.com. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
- ^'Asprise Java OCR Library Features'. asprise.com. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
- ^'Asprise Java, C#/VB.NET OCR API'. asprise.com. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
- ^Debian manual page for Cuneiform for Linux version 1.1.0
- ^'OCR SDK Language Packages Download'. Dynamsoft.com. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
- ^'OmniPage CSDK - OCR Document Capture Toolkit | Document Imaging & OCR'. Nuance. Archived from the original on 2010-08-24. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
- ^'OmniPage Standard Document Conversion'. Nuance. Archived from the original on 2014-03-13. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
- ^'GOCR Homepage'. wasd.urz.uni-magdeburg.de. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ^'GOCR'. Jocr.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2013-09-12.
- ^Diaz, Antonio (2015-04-16). 'GNU Ocrad 0.26 released' (Mailing list). info-gnu.
- ^OCRopus includes the ocropus-hocr tool which produces hOCR from the recognition results.
- ^In combination with the hocr-tools
- ^Assefi, Mehdi (2016-12-01). 'OCR as a Service: An Experimental Evaluation of Google Docs OCR, Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader, and Transym'. Research gate. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
