Tedious reprinting text to bring it into an electronic form has long been moved into the past, because now there are pretty advanced recognition systems, work with which requires minimal user intervention. Programs for digitizing text are in demand both in the office and at home. Currently, there is quite a wide variety of various applications for text recognition, but which of them are really the best? Let's try to figure it out in this matter.
ABBYY FineReader.
Ebby Fine Rider is the most popular program for scanning and recognizing text in Russia, and perhaps in the world. This application has in its arsenal all the necessary tools, which allowed him to achieve such success. In addition to scanning and recognition, ABBYY FineReader allows advanced editing of the resulting text, as well as perform a number of other actions. The program is characterized by very high quality text recognition and work speed. It also deserved world popularity thanks to the possibility of digitizing texts in many languages of the world, as well as a multilingual interface. Among the few flaws, FineReader can, except that, allocate the high weight of the application and the need to pay for the use of a full-fledged version.
Lesson: How to recognize text in ABBYY FineReader
Readiris
The main competitor of Ebby Fine Rider in the text digitization segment is the Readiris application. This is a functional tool for text recognition from both the scanner and the saved files of various formats (PDF, PNG, JPG, etc.). Although on the functionality, this program is somewhat inferior to ABBYY FineReader, it significantly exceeds most of other competitors. The main dadiris chief is the ability to integrate with a number of cloud services for storing files. The disadvantages of Readiris are almost the same as ABBYY FineReader: a lot of weight and the need to pay considerable money for the full version.
VueScan.
VueScan developers The main attention was focused on all the same on the process of text recognition, but on the mechanism of scanning documents from paper carriers. Moreover, the program is good precisely what works with a very large list of scanners. To interact with the device, you do not need to install drivers. Moreover, Vuescan allows you to work with additional scanners, which even native applications of these devices do not help reveal to the fullest. Also, the program has the recognition tool for the scanned text. But this feature is popularly only due to the fact that universal is a great application for scanning. Actually, the functionality on the digitization of the text is rather weak and inconvenient, so recognition in Vuescan is used to solve simple tasks.
Cuneiform
The Cuneiform application is an excellent solution for text recognition from photos, images, scanner. Popularity It has acquired thanks to the use of a special digitization technology that combines font-dependent and font recognition. This allows you to mostly recognize the text, taking into account even formatting items, but at the same time maintain a high speed of work. Unlike most programs for text recognition, this is absolutely free. But this product has a number of flaws. So, it does not work with one of the most popular formats - PDF, and also has poor compatibility with some models of scanners. In addition, the application at the moment developers is not officially supported.
Winscan2pdf.
Unlike Cuneiform, the only WinScan2PDF function is digitizing the text received from the PDF scanner. The main advantage of this program is the simplicity of use. It will suit those people who very often scan paper documents and recognize text in PDF format. The main lack of vinskan2PDF is associated with a very limited functionality. Actually, nothing more than this product can do except the above procedure. It cannot save recognition results to another format, except PDF, and also does not provide the ability to digitize image files that are already stored on the computer.
Ridoc.
Radox is a universal office application for scanning documents and text recognition. Its functionality is still a bit inferior to ABBYY FineReader or Readiris, but the cost is noticeably less. Therefore, according to the ratio of "Price - Quality", ridoc looks even preferable. At the same time, the program has no significant restrictions on the functionality, and is equally well performing both the task of scanning and recognition. Fishing of riddle is the ability to reduce images without loss of quality. The only significant drawback is not entirely correct work on the recognition of small text.
Of course, among the listed programs, any user will be able to find the one that he will have to do. The choice will depend on both specific tasks that accounted for most often to solve and on the financial condition.