Rip and read: 6 OCR tools put to the test
Journalists have been handed wonky PDF files or had to scan mountains of paper documents for years, but until relatively recently there hasn’t been an easy way to translate those docs into digital text. Several tools for converting PDF files into text using optical character recognition or OCR for short have popped up recently, but which one works best?
To see which OCR tools did the job and which ones fell flat, a one-page online document was printed and scanned on an HP DeskJet F4280 printer at 200 DPI.
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