Does exactly what it promises.

I had 90 pages of scanned PDFs to respond to in litigation Im involved with. Theyre court documents on complex forms. You have to submit paper copies to the court, paper copies to the other party, and retrieve paper copies from the court clerk if you need them. But theyre all stored electronically. Thats like planting a garden, emailing pictures to your friends, and then inviting them to share a harvest feast with you based on their printouts.

This OCR software turns it back into at least the aroma of a fresh harvest. Granted, none of the formatting is retained and some of the lower case Ws are upper case (almost all of the ones at the beginning of a word), but if you need a scanned document to copy and paste from this free tool is priceless.

There are weird bugs. The Open dialog never closes. The save dialog doesnt let you change the name of the document unless you click the [ ... ] button to browse file system for its destination. But none of that gets in the way of using this tool to brute force your way into a document you hate for not being textual.

ObeyTheFist about OCR Scanner with LEADTOOLS SDK