We tested out the best OCR software for scanning your paper documents and archiving them as digital PDF files.

For repurposing, OCR typically converts a printed table into an Excel spreadsheet, or an old book either into a PDF with searchable text hidden under the page images or into a word-processing ...

Readiris Pro 16 converts images, PDF files, and other scanned documents into fully editable text files using a robust optical character recognition engine that accurately preserves the layout of ...

Of course, if you have heavy OCR requirements, you'll probably prefer a local, software-based solution. OnlineOCR is for those times when you're in a pinch and need a free, easy OCR option.

If so you should be able to OCR data into fields in a table, and then Excel will import them right up. But any data not fitting the specific format will need to be handled manually.