What is optical character recognition?

Often abbreviated OCR, optical character recognition refers to the branch of computer science that involves reading text from paper and translating the images into a form that the computer can manipulate (for example, into ASCII codes). An OCR system enables you to take a book or a magazine article, feed it directly into an electronic computer file, and then edit the file using a word processor.
All OCR systems include an optical scanner for reading text, and sophisticated software for analyzing images. Most OCR systems use a combination of hardware (specialized circuit boards) and software to recognize characters, although some inexpensive systems do it entirely through software. Advanced OCR systems can read text in large variety of fonts, but they still have difficulty with handwritten text.

The potential of OCR systems is enormous because they enable users to harness the power of computers to access printed documents. OCR is already being used widely in the legal profession, where searches that once required hours or days can now be accomplished in a few seconds.

OCR features in Image To PDF OCR product

Create Searchable PDFs and OCR Text Files from TIFFs and Image-Only PDFs;
Split multipage TIFF files into single page PDF files;
High performance TIFF to PDF conversion;
Merge single and multipage TIFF Files into a new PDF file;
Command line tool for use in scripts or .bat files;
Image to PDF OCR product can set security to the generated PDF files;
Image to PDF OCR product's OCR engine, capable of processing 10,000 pages per hour is used to recognise text from source TIFF and Image Only PDF files and to create Searchable PDF files.

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