| Product | Pros | Cons |
| Nuance OmniPage 18 Professional | -Fast and powerful | -Interface is slightly too complicated |
| ABBYY FineReader 10 Professional | -Clear interface | -Diminished performance for complex page layouts |
| IRIS ReadIRIS 12 Pro |
-Preserves original document layout -Compresses files |
-Insufficient accuracy |
| Microsoft OneNote 2010 | -Flexibility of use resulting from variety of features | -Not the best solution if your main goal is OCR |
| Presto! OCR Pro 4.0 |
-Accurate -Able to process tables |
-Lacks power for bulk scanning -Recognizes fewer languages than other OCR tools |
| Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional | -Many capabilities -Useful in working with videos | -Difficult-to-learn interface interferes with OCR results |
| Maestro Recognition Server 5.0 |
-Fast -Highest accuracy -Convenient interface |
-Does not automatically open the OCRed files that it produces, resulting in a slight inconvenience |
| PrimeOCR 5.0 | -Fairly high accuracy | -Lacking in advanced features |
| PdfCompressor Pro 5.0 |
-Excellent accuracy -Includes file conversion and compression |
-Does not convert files into other formats besides PDF |
| Tesseract 3 |
-The best free tool available -Open source |
-Does not come with a GUI – runs from a command-line interface |
| SimpleOCR 3.1 | -Free, easy to use |
-Poor accuracy -Unable to process complex, multi-column documents |
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