Tools for OCR. Optical character recognition (OCR) allows extracting textual content from images. It is mainly used for document numerization, to transcribe letters, handwritten or not.
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OCR - Character Recognition
Character Recognition
dCode does no allow to make character recognition from a file. However, here is a list of online tools that could help.
Free Online OCR
Free-OCR.com http://www.free-ocr.com/ : online, free and fast, limited to 6Mo.
I2OCR http://www.i2ocr.com/ : online, fast and free limited to 200dpi and 10Mo
Free Online OCR http://free-online-ocr.com/ : online, free, a bit slow
New OCR http://www.newocr.com/ : online, fast, free, with a crop selection.
Online OCR http://www.onlineocr.net/ : online, free, limited to 4Mo.
Google Docs http://docs.google.com/ : require a Google Account, by opening an image or a PDF in Docs.
Free OCR Softwares
GOCR http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ : open-source, software for Windows or Linux.
Tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr : open-source block used in Google Docs.
Commercial OCR Softwares
OmniPage http://www.nuance.fr/for-individuals/by-product/omnipage/index.htm : maybe the most advance software, but very expensive
Abbyy FineReader http://finereader.abbyy.com/ : another advanced software, a bit cheaper.
Tools for OCR. Optical character recognition (OCR) allows extracting textual content from images. It is mainly used for document numerization, to transcribe letters, handwritten or not.
Answers to Questions
How to recognize a font used in a picture?
To identify a specific font used in a document, an image or a PDF, here is a bunch of websites:
What Font Is here (link) : free, images < 1.8 Mo and 80000 font library.
Identifont here (link) : free, developed by MIT.
What The Font here (link) : free, online, images < 2 Mo.
Example: dCode uses Courier font
How to recognize handwritten text?
Today (2016) there are no reliable handwriting recognition software.
It is nevertheless possible to make live recognition of handwritten characters (ie: writing with a connected pen)
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