>I'm looking for a way to OCR existing documents in a VFP system before exporting to a document manager. The files are stored in a windows folder, so could be handled in a variety of ways. I already use iTextSharp to fill pdf forms and have Debenu Quick PDF, but neither of those tools seem to do OCR. The Document Management company wants to charge $2500 up front and $500 annually for a watch folder setup. I'm looking for a program with no continuing fee that could be fired programmatically.
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>As always, thanks in advance!


I used this tool which is open source:
https://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html

There is a command line tool PDFTOTEXT.exe which you can run with command line and extract the OCR information. I have not looked at it for a while, so I am not sure if that is still working.