Convert your scanned images to text files or word documents with OCRTools; a FreeWare OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application that is completly FREE. OCRTools also offers a Royalty-Free developer toolkit that you may use to add OCR to your custom software applications.

OCRTools features the ability to analyze an entire file, or manually specify text and image zones within a file -- output results to plain text or RTF (MS Word) formats and more.

Developers can use the OCRTools API to add OCR capabilities to their custom software. If your application uses document images, the OCRTools Component is royalty-free, so there are no additional costs for distribution or runtime licenses.