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OCR for Mac

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A few good resources:

*https://www.onlineocr.net – works extremely well – 20 pages of mult-page PDF free (more for $$).

*https://free-online-ocr.com/ – up to first 30 pages of PDF, works okay if going to TXT format, other files didn’t come out right. After 30 pages, wants to sell you – https://smartocr.com/ – $99

$29.99 Software, my test works well – https://solutions.weblite.ca/pdfocrx/

Abbyy – Software, $99 – https://buy.abbyyusa.com/content/freemac/default.aspx

Google Docs – up to 2 MB file using the “upload file” feature. Works okay, not as good as the pro software

https://www.free-ocr.com/ – up to 2 MB file

Wondershare – $99, but has free trial – https://www.wondershare.com/mac-pdf-editor/mac-pdf-editor-pro.html

https://www.sciweavers.org/free-online-ocr – images only, no PDFs, 10 MB max

 Adobe Acrobat Professional (8) – works okay.

CSVision https://www.cvisiontech.com/online-conversion/general/main.html – slow, couldn’t download the file? Confusing system.

https://ocronline.com/faq.php – up to 10 MB, 5 pages free.