SimpleOCR for Windows

User Reviews

• Free, you say? No. No. No. No

  stephen_jacks589/11/2014

  Pros

  It wasted my time and it was not what it purported to be, so...none. Oh no! I tell a lie! The little box was pretty.

  Cons

  Life is too short to explore its undoubted, infinite miracles and pitfalls. And yet, to my guileless and doubtless pig-ignorant eye, it seemed fairly mediocre at best.

  Summary

  Anybody else who doesn't like software you have to pay for, yet which masquerades as "free"? "Free download" is the biggest con of our time and as a phrase, should be banned. Even the latest Adobe Software is a free download.- before it asks you to fork out $3,000 a week or two later. But this doesn't even let you do that. Straight into demo mode and let's have those personal details for our records, if you don't mind, whilst you're toying over whether to fork out or not... "Free but it's a demo" is almost as insulting. For students of English history: find out what was done to Edward II in Berkeley Castle. And then do it to this lote

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• You only get what you pay for...

  TechSupportGal12/13/2013

  Pros

  It only cost the time to install an uninstall

  Cons

  It's doesn't work

  Summary

  It appeared to run and convert the file, but the right side of each page was blank. The resulting file was useless.

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• Doesn't seem to do anything

  C-coder4/1/2013

  Pros

  Doesn't seem to destroy anything

  Cons

  Doesn't seem to do anything

  Summary

  I can't find a single file that this works on. It won't attempt to interpret the clipboard. Its keyboard shortcut weakness suggests that it was by something less than best quality programmers. I'd love to go 2 stars but it seems utterly useless.

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• Didnt ocr my french language tiff/jpg

  Donkeydust10/14/2012

  Pros

  none nada horible mostly nonsense characters

  Cons

  didnt work

  Summary

  total didnt work

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• very poor results, full of very very poor results

  hbdmesq7/4/2012

  Pros

  working fast?

  Cons

  for me: useless

  Summary

  look into it,please

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• good - needed different interface

  russlaf4/16/2012

  Pros

  ease of use, accurate

  Cons

  manual - needed some integration to automate with pre-scanned images

  Summary

  limited

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• SimpleOCR recognized most characters lost formatting.

  MtnTechAdv11/7/2011

  Pros

  Recognized characters with a great deal of help.

  Cons

  After running Simple OCR the characters lost all formatting and were just words in one column down the page. It was a waste of time for me - I could have retyped the document faster.

  Summary

  Not worth installing - too much work to not get a usable document.

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• Good idea but fails to perform

  boyd20008/21/2011

  Pros

  Free. Dual-window and word highlighting (image and translation), no configuration and it recognized my scanner. I admit, I haven't had much experience with OCR so maybe these are to be expected.

  Cons

  I wish I had read these reviews before . It's probably faster to retype if you type fast instead of going through all the time-consuming corrections. After all the scanning, translation and corrections it loses saved files forcing me to start over.

  Summary

  Saves max 20 pages (thankfully, given problems later), then when I save image for later translation I find it only saves current page. Had to rescan and translate then (unless maybe I saved 20 files for 20 pages). Not intuitive loading images, you have to click Add Page as if you were scanning. Then after an hour or more of scanning and correcting errors (usually less than advertised 90% correct rate as advertised) I save the document and open Word. Word says the doc is not found. Fortunately I still had the image and doc in SimpleOCR. Try saving again and it asks if I want to overwrite. I pick a different directory, save, and finally I can bring it up in Word. Unfortunately the 20 page batch I "saved" previously is nowhere to be found. Looks like I will have to rescan that section a 3rd time. I'm looking for something else.

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• This is a very poor product.

  ozonehole7/22/2011

  Pros

  There are no pros.

  Cons

  Doesn't work with many very simple, clear documents. Lots of bugs. Crashes frequently.

  Summary

  Don't waste your time. This product is full of bugs, performs poorly, and crashes often. Why can/t I give this product zero stars, or even negative stars!?

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• Don't waste your time with this program.

  kuri0sitat5/31/2011

  Pros

  There were none.

  Cons

  Too many errors in translations. Doesn't recognize numbers and some punctuation.

  Summary

  This program can't even translate pages of Times New Roman text. You could waste time making 23486238723 corrections per page, or you could just re-type the entire document, yourself, in the same amount of time.

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