# Recommend some OCR software

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-ocr-software/410945>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 8, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-ocr-software/410945 "2007-07-08T05:39:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-ocr-software/410945/1 "2007-07-08T05:39:18Z")

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Can someone recommend some cheap/free OCR software? It will need to be able to convert either an image file to text or a PDF mage to text for editing in Excel.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-ocr-software/410945/2 "2007-07-08T05:41:29Z")

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Disregard, I see there is another thread on this in GQ.