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Introduction
OCR –
Optical Character Recognition is a technology that
makes you able to convert your scanned paper documents,
books, PDF files into editable and searchable text format.
OCR Free can meet all of these demands. Now, download
and install OCR Free to convert scan to text.
Step 1. Scan Image
Launch
OCR Free and click "Scan..." to choose a scanner
connected to your computer and activate the scanner program of your
system.

You may click "Preview" to see the file to be scanned.
Then click "Scan" to perform scanning.
Several seconds later, the image is scanned to the image window.
Click "Fit Image", "Fit Width",
"Enlarge" and "Reduce" to adjust
the image to the right size; if needed, click "Rotate ACW"
or "Rotate CW" to correct it to the up-right position;
or you can drag your mouse to select a part of the image.

Step 2. Start OCR
Click
"OCR" to extract the text from the selection. The
extracted text will display in the text window in several seconds.
Click the text window and you can find some documents tools on the
top. "Clear Text Window" is to delete all of the
text and there is "Remove Line Breaks" button for
easier editing. You can also click "Copy all Texts to Clipboard"
to copy text in order to place it into the application of your choice.

Step 3. Save Text
Click
"Save Text" to save the extracted text as *.txt
in the output folder with the filename specified. (To output the
text as Word document, click "Export Text into Microsoft
Word" and save it.)

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