FreeOCR versions

Optical character recognition of scanned images, snapshots and PDFs
Mar 3, 2015
Editorial review
rating
5.0
Apr 27, 2014
Editorial review
rating
4.2
Aug 24, 2012
Review
3.0
Jan 6, 2010
Editorial review
rating
Apr 21, 2008
2.5
Oct 22, 2008
2.4
Mar 18, 2008
Review
2.1
Jan 20, 2009

What's new

v5.41 [Mar 4, 2015]
Enhancements to latest Version (5.41)
Testing with Windows 10 (Technical Preview)
Scanning fixes to makes/models of scanner
Better PDF compatibility for PDF Open function
Minor fixes

v5.0 [Apr 28, 2014]
- Automatic scan cleanup to improve OCR quality.
- Twain scanning fixes to stop freezing on some makes/models of scanner.
- Windows 8.1 testing.
- Changed automatic updater to direct the user to our download page becauase the updater.exe was getting flagged as a false positive with a couple of AV engines.
- Minor bug fixes.

v3.0 [Jan 6, 2010]
Using Tesseract OCR v2.03

v2.4 [Mar 18, 2008]
Using Tesseract OCR v2.03

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