TopOCR is a freeware multi-language Optical Character Recognition program for Windows desktop computers and mobile devices. It allows you to convert images captured through a scanner, digital camera or mobile phone camera into MP3 using text-to-speech or plain text in the PDF or HTML format. A Mobile OCR application for Smartphones is also in the works that has the ability to send text output to a web server to perform tasks such as text searching or translation. The user interface for TopOCR Mobile is implemented in standard HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Key features of TopOCR for PC and Mobile include:

+ Upto 99.8% OCR accuracy with a 3 MegaPixel camera
+ Handles images with mixed text and graphics (Manual or Auto Zoning)
+ Tolerates skew and uneven lighting
+ Multiple text output formats, including Searchable PDF and HTML files
+ Able to read 11 different languages with post-processing spell checker for all of them
+ Built-in, full featured Text and Image WYSIWYG Editors
+ Built-in Text-To-Speech software. (such as OCR to MP3)
+ Browser Helper Mode supports creating free audio eBooks

Mobile version include:

+ Full HTML 4.0 support with cHTML and XHTML 1.0 (WAP 2.0)
+ JavaScript 1.4, with interface to OCR engine
+ CSS Level 1 Style Sheets
+ Small screen rendering technology
+ Porting layer makes it easier to port to Symbian, Windows Mobile, Linux, or any other mobile OS platform.

Click here to download TopOCR for Windows. There is no hint about the mobile version of TopOCR.