Best optical software for free download

Convert scanned images to text or Word documents with SimpleOCR--the free OCR application (Optical Character Recognition). Includes Softwriting handprint recognition demo. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free developer toolkit (aka SDK or API).
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Tiff to Text is designed to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in a batch process. The program utilizes the OCR engine from Nuance (Owners of OMNI Page - formally ScanSoft) that is included with Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI).
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DeviceLock gives network administrators control over which users can access what devices (floppies, serial and parallel ports, Magneto-Optical disks, CD-ROMs, USB and FireWire drives, ZIPs, Bluetooth, etc.) on a local computer.
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TxReader converts documents into spoken words and MP3. Simply listen to all your documents instead of having to read them yourself. TxReader will read any text given. TxReader will read all your MS Word and PDF documents at the click of a button.
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Archiver is an easy to use program with explorer-like interface which allows you to catalog the drives: floppy disks, hard drives (including network ones), optical disks, CD-ROMs, ZIP disks and other media.
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