For the record, the material I’m scanning has all been in Times New Roman font, so I haven’t yet attempted anything else. It recognizes all of my scanned text, and I haven’t seen it make any mistakes when interpreting my scans. I would rather just drag-n-drop, have focus in the app, and hit return rather than click the button. One developer note I would like to have seen is that the execute button was ‘on’ by default.

One note for customer: font size of original has a huge impact on the outcome! If you can, increase the font size for better results. I only transcribed use of the helvetica font. user mpe01) Also ‘h’ for ’n' and ‘o' for ‘c' have been an issue.ģ) Formatting like bulleted lists would be intermittently accurateĤ) Chopped text: in the 100 pages I lost a string of 3 charactersįor a free OCR it transcribed these pages really well. On my mid-2011 iMac running Sierra, this FREE OCR software did really well.Īfter transcribing about a hundred pages of a presentation deck, I found the following issues (sorted by rarity - where rare was listed last)ġ) Punctuation: periods and commas iinterchanged.Ģ) The letter i and j interchanged (someone else reported this I believe.

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