Hi Rachel, I assume you're talking about OCR for English language texts with simple fonts. :-) If so, we've been using Tesseract with good results. It's open source. Good luck! Best wishes, Carol On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Rachel Gravel <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Greetings, > > Might anyone have some recommendations on good OCR software that is either > relatively cheap or free? We're looking to OCR some files for a digital > collection (platform still to be determined...) and wonder if there's a > more robust tool than Acrobat Pro that won't cost an arm and a leg. > > Many thanks in advance for your expertise! > > Cheers, > Rachel > > -- > [log in to unmask] > (617)870-4179 > www.linkedin.com/pub/rachel-gravel/4/318/908 > -- Carol Kassel Senior Manager, Digital Library Infrastructure NYU Digital Library Technology Services [log in to unmask] (212) 992-9246 dlib.nyu.edu