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To get the best results from optical character recognition (OCR) software, set your scanner to 300 dots per inch (DPI) or higher resolution, rotate images that are upside down, and select text areas to OCR by drawing boxes around text when images contain columns or pictures. The document provides examples of OCR on text set in Times New Roman and Arial fonts scanned at 200 DPI for testing purposes.

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FreeOCR Notes

To get the best results from optical character recognition (OCR) software, set your scanner to 300 dots per inch (DPI) or higher resolution, rotate images that are upside down, and select text areas to OCR by drawing boxes around text when images contain columns or pictures. The document provides examples of OCR on text set in Times New Roman and Arial fonts scanned at 200 DPI for testing purposes.

Uploaded by

Oscar Zam Castro
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© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
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Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
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FreeOCR notes 1) For best results set your scanner to 300 DPI , 200 DPI is the minimum setting

to achieve acceptable results. 2) Use the rotate buttons (to the left of the image) if your image is upside down or rotated 3) If your document has columns or pictures then just select the text area by drawing a box on the image with the left mouse button 4) After OCR you can use the export button to Word or copy/paste the text into any Windows application. Note: You can press the red X to clear this text window before OCR'ing This page was prepared using Microsoft Word printed then scanned @ 200 DPI Times New Roman "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog Arial "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" "The quick brovvn fox jumps over a lazy dog" "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" The phrase above uses all letters from the alphabet.

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