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Check this out...<br />
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<a href="http://sites.google.com/site/ocropus/" rel="ugc">http://sites.google.com/site/ocropus/</a><br />
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and here is another one..<br />
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<a href="http://jocr.sourceforge.net/" rel="ugc">http://jocr.sourceforge.net/</a>
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The accepted solution is the Author asking a question. Somethign isn't right there i dont think.
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Hello,<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;Does anyone know if there are free OCR software available for XP?<br />
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thanks.
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Hello,
   Does anyone know if there are free OCR software available for XP?


thanks.

Free OCR software for XP?

Optical character recognition (OCR) is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used as a form of data entry from printed paper data records, including passport documents, invoices, bank statements, computerized receipts, business cards, mail, printouts of static-data, or any suitable documentation. It is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that it can be electronically edited, searched, stored more compactly, displayed on-line, and used in machine processes such as machine translation, text-to-speech, key data and text mining. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.