Image to Text OCR Converter

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It is not a hard problem to recognize the characters in image file as long as you use the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. Image to Text OCR Converter is especially designed with this kind of technology for the MS-DOS interface. This application is able to recognize many kinds of languages, which will be convenient for the office work.

Image to Text OCR Converter is free for evaluation. You can freely download the application and unpack it into your disk. This application is designed for MS-DOS interface use only, and it is instantly runnable without any installation steps.

Image to Text OCR Converter is designed for MS-DOS interface use and it natively supports being called via a batch script. So you can run it on a server for batch processing. If you need run a copy of the application on a server, please buy a server license. Meanwhile, this application is guaranteed for being redistributed within a third-party software package with a developer license.

Before running this application, please open a MS-DOS command prompt window in your system. Two methods are offered.

Click "Start"—"Run" and input "cmd" in "Run" dialog box, then click "OK" button.
Use the hot key "Windows"+ "R" on the keyboard to open "Run" dialog box.

The basic command line is given below for your reference to write your own command line in cmd dialog box.
pdf2txtocr.exe -ocr C:\in.png C:\out.txt

For better understanding the one above, please see the example in Figure1.

Figure1.

"C:\Documents and Settings\admin\My Documents\Downloads\pdf2txtocrcmd\pdf2txtocr.exe" -ocr "C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Desktop\demo\ocr\ex-png0002.png" 03.text

The command line can be divided to four parts:

"C:\Documents and Settings\admin\My Documents\Downloads\pdf2txtocrcmd\pdf2txtocr.exe" stands for the directory of pdf2txtocr.exe which is the executable file in the application Image to Text OCR Converter.
–ocr means the OCR technology to be taken in the conversion.
"C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Desktop\demo\ocr\ex-png0002.png" is the directory of the original picture file.

Note: If the paths of parameters are too long to input, please drag the file you need into cmd dialog box. You will find the files will turn to paths themselves immediately.

03.text is the file name and extension name of newly created Text document.

Features of Image to Text OCR Converter:

Support all versions of Windows systems.
Allow to convert scanned PDF files to text files.
Convert scanned image files to plain Text files.
Input formats: TIFF, JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PCX, TGA, JP2, PNM and MNG.
Support English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, etc.