SimpleOCR is a popular program that is used to change images that have been scanned, into both text files and Word documents. The process may sound extremely complicated, but with the help of SimpleOCR, it is actually extremely simple! One of the major benefits of using SimpleOCR is the fact that it is 100% free of charge.

FreeOCR is something that has only become popular over the last few months. This piece of software is something that is a free scan program, but also a free OCR program, hence the name! The great thing about this product is that it gives an extremely accurate scan of OCR PDF files.

LibreOffice first came to market back in 2010. Computer users suddenly realised that the future of OpenOffice was not certain and users were uncertain of the intentions from Oracle’s perspective.

AbiWord is part of a larger development project known as AbiSource, which aims to create an open source office suite that works across multiple different environments. Although AbiWord is the only practical piece of software to come from the project so far, it’s shaping up to be a very flexible and practical program which has versions that can run on just about Operating System available. We take a look at the program and see how its features stack up compared to those of Word and Writer.

Notepad++ is a text editor that serves as an excellent replacement for the notepad application of your operating system.

OpenOffice.org is an entirely free and impressively complete office suite which includes word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentations and more. All the things you’re likely to find in Microsoft Office — but for free.