Advanced OCR Free

Advanced OCR Free can extract text from images and store it in an editable form. If you find some text you wish to use somewhere else, but you can't select it and copy it, this lightweight utility will surely come in useful. It is capable of extracting text instantly and all the necessary preparations can be done without any kind of difficulties.

The software is offered free of charge, as the name suggests. Downloading the setup file takes only a few seconds and its components can be installed just as fast. There are no special requirements you have to meet and you don't need powerful hardware to run the application.

The character recognition process is quite easy. All you have to do is load a picture and click a button. The loaded image is displayed on the left half of the interface and the extracted text can be found on the left half, after clicking the OCR button on a ribbon menu. The software can extract text from PDFs as well and it provides a separate option for importing such files.

Once you extract the text from an image, you can select and edit it right away. Furthermore, you can paste the text in another location or you can save it in a new file. If the process is not successful the first time, you may want to try out some of the options the software places at your disposal, on its ribbon menus.

Whenever you need text found in a picture, you can use Advanced OCR Free to acquire that text in just a few seconds.