Open Source OCR that makes searchable PDFs

Ed Valio | July 27th, 2010 - 9:20 am
Open Source OCR that makes searchable PDFs

From Slashdot: ”In my job all of our multifunction copiers scan to PDF but many of our users want and expect those PDFs to be text searchable. I looked around for software that would create text searchable pdfs but most are very expensive and I couldn’t find any that were open source (free). I did [...]

Windows 7 search can now OCR TIFF images on its own

Ed Valio | October 26th, 2009 - 11:28 am
Windows 7 search can now OCR TIFF images on its own

From ARS Technica:
”The indexing service that powers Windows search can now perform OCR of TIFF images. Though not enabled by default (due to resource usage constraints), installing it gives full-text searching of TIFFs. Scanned documents and faxes are the main target for this capability.”

See the Microsoft TechNet page for installation info.
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