Free Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

[redwhiteandblues]

I am looking for video character recognition - the software would copy the video text and copy it into a .txt file. Where can I get a free open source copy of this software.

Thanks

[Searchinganswers]

Hi Chris!

I have a question for you.

I would like to have som kind of speech synthesis which can read my pdf-books for me.

What is the best free or not free alternative?

Best regards.

Your videos rock! :)

[TripleXconscience]

free ocrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol



[chrisparks100]

Chris has CDO, which is much like OCD except its in alphabetical order, LIKE IT SHOULD BE.

[chrisparks100]

@chrisparks100 P.S. That makes OCR-COR

[jamalkhamissi1]

lol

[MightySavagE]

thanks!

[upajos]

Unfortunately free-ocr(dot)com puts limits on the number of uploads (max. 10 per hour) and the size of images. Although it solves a problem for Linux users, insofar as I know of no good free/low-cost OCR programs for Linux, I'd much rather have an installable OCR program for Linux, even it's only up to Windows OCR programs of 10 years ago, and I'd be willing to spend $30-$60 for the software. Otherwise, Linux has excellent scanner support.

[LAHrebirth]

is there one for japanese? i would like to translate some mangas

[ilnli]

I would recommend giving ocrconvert a go as well, I’ve found it quite fast and accurate with my image and PDF files, also there’s no limit on the number of files that you can process.

[pbainbridge]

Mate your a genius.! thanks so much, I'd been pissin about with Adobe/Apple and god only knows how many others trying to work this out, i click onto you, and within seconds my problem is solved.! Apple/Adobe & Co could well do with someone who speaks OUR language, the language of ''I've got better things to do than waste 4 hrs trying to work through their long winded Brew Ha Ha.! you work it out instantly, go son......Peter Bainbridge

[rakeshgmathur]

great, you can also at onlinedocumentconversion

[fuguramanaki]

Is this guy related to G. Bush?

[MRCAB]

Thanks, that was very helpful.

[stardale02]

nice:)

[Nevyn6]

2:10 and forward.. please shut up. Obviously not an entertainer. And certainly not a comedian.

[suckah666]

you got point with that! agree

[Almuric7]

I love these types of things from Chris Pirillo, learned so much about what's free online from his vids - plus I can trust his always-balanced opinions.

[DeltaPhi79]

What use is this...

[drpenmaster]

whats wrong with his shoulders

[jeffsadowski]

No Geek for language option?

[Waxxumus]

lol is he drunk???

[sJeGaJn]

I just got that shirt ^.^ awesomeness!!!

[mgorman1980]

i love ur channel and vids chris you always have something interesting with software i can use thanx and i will have to check the newest pc world mag and see if you wrote an article too

[jimmyhellyeah123]

Is it good with "0" and "O"? Cuz i know thats a problem with OCR.

[manonpiano]

1 rea11v d0nt kn0w  hahaha lol

[retepvosnul]

Yes, Upload documents to websites that can do anything with the results !> great idea !. Really !. lutser/.

[noobkid12]

It looks like Chris is getting a hunch-back :o ahhh but go Chris! Thanks for this!

[Otaybay]

audio sync is off :(

[CHVNX]

This is very useful. Now you can scan books easily!

[Co0lFlame]

free ocr softawre is built in to HP printer / scanner drivers

[afg96]

What does this thing do basically I didn't understand.

[zaghy2zy]

if you got office onenote 2007, it's built-in.... but this will definitely try this

[DrakesMac]

the audio is ahead of the video sorry but i think you need a new camera or something

[PurushaDesa]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhh -

that's why he behaves like a twat half the time, it's an actual condition he's got.

Okay, I'm gonna be much more tolerant now, and I might even finally subscribe because he is pretty good - wouldn't have discovered Tonido without him.

[jehanzeb89]

why chriss looks like drunk to me in this vid?

[IAmNgatai]

Only in this Vid ?? :D

[CHVNX]

Depressed, not drunk.

[CharlesYin96]

I don't think Free-OCR would cost money....

[bbvibrabb]

Is Jan Birsa related to Valter Birsa?

[BarkerGVideos]

Wow this is really impressive!

[theellison]

the ony reson i suscrbed 2 u is the vid

"how 2 piss of a telemarketr"

but now im wondering if i should unsuscibe

[bobbybob3680]

its about tech, please PLEASE un sub to him if your not into it. he is all about tech, and plenty of people like his vids about this, seeing how u arent a computer geek, here is an example of how you could use this software. you could scan your math book pages in to the computer, convert to text, put on ipod and voila, plenty of answers for the test :)

[pranksterprince15]

i was a bit durr about what it was used for and im pretty into computers and all weird tech kinds of things but i never had the use for it so i never tried learning or using it. thank you for the explanation ^_^

[endnami]

great share Pirillo, thanks for always being there for us.

[xXAlphaXx]

Wouldn't an OCR completely defeat the purpose of a captcha?

[tuggerpuppy1]

FUCK YES!

[nepalihercules]

how would it defeat??

[foreyeproductions]

free-ocr doesnt work at all tested a few documents and nothing but crap.

[Jimmyhkiller]

lol i like it when someone says a smurf XD

[scopes20]

OCR will let people spam, when you signup for somthing you have to enter the text in the image to stop macros spaming, lol but besides that it wiked

[nepalihercules]

why would people go through the trouble of downloading the capatcha and then uploading it in free ocr and then copying it in other website???

that's just not worth it, they might aswell enter the text manually

[randomviewer896]

YAY

[leonresidentevilfan]

nice

[LxrKan]

awsome

[Liam356]

My printer/faxer/scanner/copier has an option to scan it in as text.

[xxGaaraGregxx]

FREE OCCER! HAHAHAHAHA!

[abluefuzz]

blah

[cusinndzl]

Nice video.

[davidrayahin]

Chris looks like an addict throughout this video.

[qaizali]

lmao he does look like one too! :O

[Repter75]

@davidrayahin he's gotta get his OCR fix...

[JohnRLange]

FREE OCR! Grant him political asylum. [When scanned becomes: EDGG 0OD| Brenl 4im b01ilice1 esy1um.]

[Icewind11797]

I always wondered if this was possible.. Thank you again Chris!! :D

[macias9133]

thanks!! you saved me sooooo much time!

[Mattophobia]

could you start putting any links you say on the video in the sidebar?

[Madmarb2k8]

agreed

[tommy4578]

that would REALLY help... hell, I even do that

[TobiasMX]

"OCheR" would be nicer pronunciation than "OCR". If only the 'e' meant something, this could be a legit acronym :(

[FirebrandNIRE]

Is the site secure??

I mean, it will not make duplicate copies of your docs to reserve on their sever?

thx

[inebriatedape]

Is there a Trojan attached? It would be helpful if you would let us know just to be safe.

A lot of freeware comes with viruses.

[JayKay3000]

dunno where you get your freeware from but i've gotten a lot of legally free stuff and never had any viruses and chris is hardly likely to advertise anything that will destroy our systems or his.

is it just me or is open source software just looking like such a good alternative these days for the majority of average joe pc users.

[helloitsmasterhulk]

lol every one in the chat before 1:30 was typing it wrong .. lol

[billsurlatete]

amazing. i own a printing and scanning shop in belfast, and im always looking for ocr software that works!

[LOTRzagorath]

Is there no .png?

[iPodz4utube]

It's free! wahoo! Who doesn't love fre software!

[Mr937595]

it really ain't that accurate, but pretty good. funny to upload a picture with no text and see what it comes up with though, try it

[Vanillawafer32]

I like the pronounciation if thats how you spell it

of the file extensions lol

[nemesis8722]

sweet! I've always wanted to find something that could do this!

[missionwolfman]

thanks for sharing this works great.

[lgsproductions112]

nice :)

[TheMacHack]

awesome

[TheMaster9124]

yeah am the third chris rocks

[HackerTHATSME]

hurr

[daeheadshot]

"An error occured, please try again later."

...F*ck T_T

[friskyle]

third comment yay

[khalistan1112]

wow second comment keep up the good videos chris!

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