At least that’s what FreeOCR says. However, when I tried a 1.2 MB .tiff file of a scanned image of a 1-page letter, it told me that “for some reason, they couldn’t run OCR on my file”.

Nevertheless, the idea is great as it save you a lot of typing if you only need to scan a document of which you only have a paper copy and then get it converted to an editable file. Nice if it turns out to be reliable particularly as it’s free.

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