{"id":4536,"date":"2008-02-26T08:29:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T07:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/transfer-data-from-paper-to-your-pc\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:34:18","slug":"transfer-data-from-paper-to-your-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/transfer-data-from-paper-to-your-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer data from paper to your PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/02\/noentry1.jpg\" alt=\"No more sore fingers\" align=\"right\" \/>One of the worst jobs I ever had was one where I had to type information from piles of order forms into a computer. After two weeks working there I had to quit because I was going cross-eyed and my fingers had started to wear away. If you have a similarly mind-numbing job or if you have to transfer data from a paper document to your PC for any reason then you don&#8217;t have to suffer like I do. You simply need to scan the docs and install an optical character recognition (OCR) software on your PC and the whole task can be done automatically.<\/p>\n<p>As Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_character_recognition\">puts it<\/a>, OCR is the process of &#8220;translating images of hand-written or typewritten data into machine-editable text.&#8221; In the past, OCR systems were a little crude and unreliable but today&#8217;s software is advanced enough to do the job with minimal mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a printed document you want to transfer to your PC for editing or importing into a database then you may want to plump for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuance.com\/omnipage\/professional\/\">Omni Page<\/a>. It&#8217;s one of the most powerful OCR tools out there, boasting precision OCR analysis, advanced layout detection and logical form recognition technology. You can download a <a href=\"http:\/\/omni-page.en.softonic.com\/\">free trial<\/a> of the software, although the full version will set you back a hefty $500. If this is too much for you then you could try a free, no-frills alternative such as <a href=\"http:\/\/softi.co.uk\/freeocr.htm\">Softi FreeOCR<\/a>, but you&#8217;ll have to accept that the recognition is not so accurate.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to import a paper document but don&#8217;t have a scanner in your house then give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topocr.com\/\">TopOCR<\/a> a try. The OCR system in this one is specfically designed for digital cameras, allowing you to simply snap a picture of your document and transfer it to your PC. What if the paper-based data you have is handwritten rather than typed? Then you simply install<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evernote.com\/en\/products\/evernote\/\"> EverNote<\/a>, which lets you store and quickly scan, store and access handwritten notes and documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the worst jobs I ever had was one where I had to type information from piles of order forms into a computer. After two weeks working there I had to quit because I was going cross-eyed and my fingers had started to wear away. If you have a similarly mind-numbing job or if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/transfer-data-from-paper-to-your-pc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transfer data from paper to your PC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336348,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/336348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}