Tesseract is a bare-bones OCR engine. The build process is a little quirky, and the engine needs some additional features (such as layout detection), but the core feature, text recognition, is ...

This competent freebie is excellent for extracting text, and that’s all it does. FreeOCR is a nice, simple front-end for HP’s public domain Tesseract OCR engine (now used by Google) and is ...