ocr

Free Online OCR – convert PDF to Word, Images to text, JPEG to Word

I had a very messed up PDF and this tool was the best one I tried at extracting the text.

Detect handwriting in images  |  Cloud Vision API  |  Google Cloud

I have a vision of using this API to process my MobiScribe notes into a searchable format (think Evernote, but not proprietary).

Ocr Api Service – Iphone – Android – Blackberry – Windows Phone – Web apps

I like that this is a relatively affordable cloud-based API for OCR. A good option for web apps that don’t have massive volume.