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Comparison of optical character recognition software

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ5155948 ↗
Source-derived summary

This comparison of optical character recognition software includes:

OCR engines, that do the actual character identification

Layout analysis software, that divide scanned documents into zones suitable for OCR

Graphical interfaces to one or more OCR engines

Software development kits that are used to add OCR capabilities to other software (e.g. forms processing applications, document imaging management systems, e-discovery systems, records management solutions)

Evaluation

A 2016 analysis of the accuracy and reliability of the OCR packages Google Docs OCR, Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader, and Transym, employing a dataset including 1227 images from 15 different categories concluded Google Docs OCR and ABBYY to be performing better than others.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 1227—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Comparison, optical and character can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Comparison of optical character recognition software” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.