gImageReader is a Windows software that leverages the Tesseract OCR engine to transform scanned pages into text documents. It supports over 100 languages, which is perfect for multilingual users.

Preprocessing

You can add new pictures by importing them from internal or external storage devices. Alternatively, there is an option to acquire content via the connected TWAIN compatible scanner. Both grayscale and color modes are provided. The output resolution and destination folder are adjustable as well.

After obtaining the images users are able to tweak the brightness and contrast parameters, potentially improving the quality and readability of the content. Moreover, it is possible to quickly invert the colors.

Character recognition

There are two OCR modes: plain text and PDF. The former option is intended for removing any extra visual elements from resulting files, while the latter enables you to accurately transfer complex page formatting from paper to the digital format. gImageReader supports over 100 OCR languages such as:

English;
German;
French;
Chinese;
Russian, etc.

Features

free to download and use;
offers you powerful instruments for extracting text from photos and scanned pages;
it is easy to improve the quality of imported pictures by tweaking their properties;
resulting documents can be exported as Adobe PDF files for seamless sharing;
compatible with all modern versions of Windows.