Free OCR

[celedhring]

Does anybody here have experience using a decent free OCR? I need to scan some paper documents and turn them into word.

[DontSayBanana]

Does anybody here have experience using a decent free OCR? I need to scan some paper documents and turn them into word.

OneNote has built-in OCR support, and from personal experience, it's surprisingly reliable.  I wouldn't try to submit tax forms with an unedited scan, but it won't take a ton of time to correct errors, either.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Extract-text-from-pictures-and-file-printouts-by-using-OCR-in-OneNote-93a70a2f-ebcd-42dc-9f0b-19b09fd775b4?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1

Evernote also does an OCR pass when cleaning up pictures of a printed sheet in the iPhone/iPad app, but the scanned text is only to index the note for searchability- the document stays a photo in the note itself.