JOCR. JOCR is a little program that can capture an image from any part of the desktop and perform optical character recognition (convert images to text) on the contents.
It is free to download and use but it uses a resource provided with MS Office, and requires that Microsoft Office 2003 or higher be installed on the machine where it is used. If you’ve ever wanted to work with text that is presented as an image JOCR may be what you’re looking for. Note that JOCR is designed to capture text/image clips straight off the desktop, rather than being a full fledged document/scanner manager. SimpleOCR. VueScan. Scanning Basics.