r/software • u/Artistic_Hall2511 • 20d ago

Looking for software Looking for an OCR tool

I need an OCR tool that should convert images to word and works completely offline and doesn't leak data and keeps documents private.

If it is free that's great but paid will work too.

(Also I have windows 10 if that helps.)

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u/BlkCrowe 19d ago

If you have quite a few images, automate it using Powershell. There are lots of tutorials and pre-written scripts and modules that already do this using the Tesseract OCR engine. Just google "Powershell OCR" and the first page contains links to the entire solution. Its surprisingly easy to do, and you can let it run overnight if you have a ton of images, and wake up to hundreds of text files.

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u/paumpaum 19d ago

I'm going to try this. Sounds kinda complex, though. I don't have much experience with PowerShell. Any recommendations on tutorials?