Smart OCR

Smart OCR is a handy Windows app that helps turn your scanned paper documents and PDF files into editable text using something called optical character recognition (OCR). Pretty cool, right?

Easy-to-Use Features

This tool really shines with its clean and simple features. Even if you're not super tech-savvy, you’ll find it easy to use the OCR mode. It shows you a preview of all the pages in your document with helpful thumbnails.

Document Preview

The main window is split into two sections. One shows the scanned data while the other analyzes the text that’s been extracted. This way, you can easily compare both versions and spot anything that's missing.

Scanning Made Simple

There’s a friendly wizard-like assistant that helps you scan documents into Word or PDF files. You can also create Word or PDF files from scanned images, open pictures from your computer, or just scan a file directly. Smart OCR supports a bunch of file formats like BMP, JPG, PNG, TIF, and of course, PDF!

Text Extraction Options

You can choose to extract text from selected pages or from all pages at once. Plus, you have the option to rotate pages to different angles and zoom in or out for better visibility. If you want to make it easier for Smart OCR to grab data accurately, you can draw regions around text, images, or tables on any page.

Performance Insights

Tests show that this tool works pretty quickly! However, keep in mind it does use some CPU and memory resources which might slow down your computer a bit while it's running. The output quality for processing text is great! But when it comes to tables? Well... things can get a little messy.

Saving Your Work

You can save all that extracted text into various formats like DOC, RTF, HTML, TXT, XLS, or PDF. Plus, before saving your work, you can tweak things like font size and color or even adjust alignment. You can make your text bold or underline it too!

A Must-Have Tool

Overall, Smart OCR is an efficient tool that's super useful for working with scanned documents. If you're looking for advanced features—like batch management and custom dictionaries—you might want to check out the professional edition of this application: Smart OCR Pro.