NewOCR.com is a brand new free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service. Whether you have a scanned document or a photo, NewOCR.com can analyze the text in any image file that you upload, and then convert the text from the image into text that you can easily edit on your computer.

I. Landing Page

What’s Good :

• Simple landing page
• No registration needed

What’s Bad :

• Rather than making their own logo, NewOCR prefer to use Free Online OCR as their header image along with the hideous Comic Sans font

II. Features

What’s Good :

• Good recognition, with test result (Using NewOCR default option) :
  • Easy Test : Perfect
  • Medium Test : 1 Character wrong (Testing out NQWOCR)
  • LQ Photocopy Simulation : 1 Character wrong (Testing out NewO£R)
  • Hard Test : All Character wrong ([iii])
• Export to either Word document or Text document
• Rotate and resize image before recognition option
• Support for PDF documents and various image formats
  

What’s Bad :

• As per this review, there’s no support for East Asian and Middle East language / characters

III. Verdict

A very nice free online solution for OCR application. You really don’t need to spent hundreds of dollars for your OCR task, NewOCR is here to help you reduce your spending.

Images use for this test :

- Easy Test

- Medium Test

- LQ Photocopy Simulation Test

- Hard Test (this is almost impossible to read even for the most advanced and pricey OCR application)

Visit NewOCR here

About Anangga Pratama

This guy loves to review WebWare/Web 2.0 Apps. Located in Depok, Indonesia and still trying to grasp the real feeling of Internet :)

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