Lime OCR is an impressive program that can extract text from scanned images and save it to a plain text file format. It supports a wide variety of image file formats and allows you to configure the output parameters to suit the needs of your task. The program is easy to use and has a great user interface. Highly recommended for anyone looking to extract text from scanned images.
Downloading Lime OCR 2.4.1 from the developer's website was possible when we last checked. We cannot confirm if there is a free download of this software available. The most popular version among Lime OCR users is 2.4.
This free PC software is developed for Windows XP/7/8/10/11 environment, 32-bit version. Lime OCR lies within Office Tools, more precisely Document management. The most frequent installation filename for the program is: lime-ocr.exe. This free program was originally created by Lime Consultants. We cannot guarantee that the program is safe to download as it will be downloaded from the developer's website. Before launching the program, check it with any free antivirus software.
From the developer:
Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text. It is used to convert paper books and documents into electronic files.
Lime OCR is build with tessearact-ocr which is an OCR Engine that was developed at HP Labs between 1985 and 1995, and now at Google.
You may want to check out more software, such as How to use Tesseract OCR in C#, PDF OCR or OCR-B Font, which might be similar to Lime OCR.