OCR Terminal is a free online Optical Character Recognition service that allows you to convert scanned images and PDFs into editable and text searchable documents. It accurately preserves formatting and layout of documents. You upload the file; OCR Terminal extracts the text without altering its formatting or layout. The results can be downloaded or e-mailed in any of four formats: rtf, txt, doc, or xml.
OCR Terminal also allows you to easily upload .pdf files, convert them to .doc files and download them without need for any lengthy software installation, and does it all for free. How’s that for a helpful tool?