*FreeOCR* is a tool for Windows PCs that allows you to scan a document and
convert it to editable text. Remember the days of having to type out text
verbatim if you had a hand-out from school or work that hadn't been sent
electronically? What a pain. Fortunately, there are some programs that exist
now that can make the job simpler. FreeOCR is one of them. OCR stands for
*Optical Character Recognition* and refers to software that *converts scanned
documents and PDFs into editable text*. On top of PDFs, FreeOCR also works
with multi-page TIFF images and various popular image formats like .JPG and
.PNG. FreeOCR then outputs plain text, and you can even export it to
Microsoft Word for further editing. Your desktop document scanner will
require Twain or WIZ compatible scanning drivers for FreeOCR to work, so take
note. *While it doesn't always work perfectly, FreeOCR is simple to use and
takes a lot of frustration out of converting many scanned documents to plain
text.*Download *FreeOCR 4.2* in Softonic
