FreeOCR Changelog

What's new in FreeOCR 5.41

Mar 4, 2015
  • Testing with Windows 10 (Technical Preview)
  • Scanning fixes to makes/models of scanner
  • Better PDF compatibility for PDF Open function
  • Minor fixes

New in FreeOCR 5.02 (Apr 28, 2014)

  • Automatic scan cleanup to improve OCR quality
  • Twain scanning fixes to stop freezing on some makes/models of scanner
  • Windows 8.1 testing
  • Changed automatic updater to direct the user to our download page becauase the updater.exe was getting flagged as a false positive with a couple of AV engines
  • Minor bug fixes

New in FreeOCR 4.2 (Sep 20, 2012)

  • Multi page Twain Scanning
  • OCR whole document in one go
  • Uses Tesseract V3 for higher accuracy and ability to recognize text columns
  • Windows 8 compatible
  • Automatic updater
  • Text post processing
  • FreeOCR V4 Now includes the following languages:
  • Eng - English, Dan - Danish, Deu - German, Fin - Finnish, Fra - French, Ita - Italian, Nld - Dutch, Nor - Norway, Pol - Poland, Spa - Spanish and Swe - Swedish.

New in FreeOCR 3.0 (Apr 12, 2010)

  • PDF opening enhancements - speed and compatibility fixes
  • Compatible with more scanners
  • Fixed some bugs
  • Improved user interface