We use and like Tesseract, as well. Cary
> On Apr 18, 2016, at 8:29 AM, Stefano Bargioni <bargi...@pusc.it> wrote: > > FYI, tesseract works with many languages, and more than one at the same time. > From [1]: > > -l lang > > The language to use. If none is specified, English is assumed. > Multiple languages may be specified, separated by plus characters. > Tesseract uses 3-character ISO 639-2 language codes. (See > LANGUAGES) > > Additional languages must be installed manually, if I'm not wrong. > > Stefano > > [1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man1/tesseract.1.html > >> On 18 apr 2016, at 16:51, Rachel Gravel <rachel.gra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> Might anyone have some recommendations on good OCR software that is either >> relatively cheap or free? We're looking to OCR some files for a digital >> collection (platform still to be determined...) and wonder if there's a >> more robust tool than Acrobat Pro that won't cost an arm and a leg. >> >> Many thanks in advance for your expertise! >> >> Cheers, >> Rachel >> >> -- >> rachel.gra...@gmail.com >> (617)870-4179 >> www.linkedin.com/pub/rachel-gravel/4/318/908 >>