What is the most accurate OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software?
There are two OCR applications that compete for the title of most accurate. These are Nuance OmniPage and ABBYY FineReader. Which application is more accurate often depends on the specific documents in question. One application may handle a particular type of page layout better than the other. With the almost infinite variety of document layouts, fonts, table structures and other variables it is impossible to say that one application will always be better than the other. However, in our opinion one company is far superior in the level of support they provide and their dedication to development of OCR solutions. This is why we recommend ABBYY FineReader over OmniPage. Since ScanSoft merged with Nuance, they have shifted their focus away from OCR and into voice recognition. Demo downloads of OmniPage are not available. Their tech support department is unreachable. ABBYY suffers from none of these shortcomings. In our trial runs, we have found that ABBYY provides a more consistent formatt
