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OCR Terminal’s free, Web-based Optical Character Recognition service lets you turn scanned images into fully searchable text files. You upload

OCR Terminal’s free, Web-based Optical Character Recognition service lets you turn scanned images into fully searchable text files.

You upload the file; OCR Terminal extracts the text without altering its formatting or layout. The results can be downloaded or e-mailed in any of four formats: rtf, txt, doc, or xml. If your fingers are cramped from retyping PDFs into Word files, it’s a godsend.

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VSL:WEB // This free Web tool will save you hours of work