OCR is the feature that most deserves to stay off the internet. Scanned contracts, payslips and ID documents are exactly what you should not be uploading to a free web converter, and yet that is how most people do it because the alternative was never made easy. PDF2OCR does the recognition on your own machine.
It reads images and PDFs of any length, from a single photographed page to a long scanned document, and the text comes out ready to search, copy, export or translate. You can point it at a file on disk or at a URL.
It is not glamorous work. But the difference between a scan and a document you can actually search is the difference between a pile of paper and an archive.
Written by Rishabh Bhardwaj
