OCR -- Since 1984? Do we have it now?

[mitgrimes]

Since 1984 there has been talk of being able to scan in a book, an article, a (whatever) and then be able to convert it to editable text. With the prospect of typing in several thousand song titles in a sizable stack of sheet music albums, I feel compelled to ask once again, can we do that yet?
To answer a few questions in advance: No, I don't HAVE to do, but it would be nice to have. I can get any lyrics that I want from the internet, but if I want the actual sheet music, it costs somewhere around 3 to 7 bucks per. Somewhere in my stack of sheet music, I may well have sheet music for it.
Yes, but where?
OCR ideas anyone? I looked at the Pro board topics all the way back to January 3, 2015, but found nothing. I'll now go see what I can find on the web.

[mitgrimes]

Well...talk about complaining before you're hurt! I found a software that worked the first time I tried it! It's called, and speaking SLUGO language, FREE OCR. Of course it has to be edited, but that's OK.

[Derek L]

A tip on searching the proboard.

Click on the search tab
Enter your search word
In this case, I entered ocr
In the when to search... posted within the last _____ days
9999 days is easy to enter and it's over 27 years!
There were several posts on ocr prior to Jan 2015

[Trudy]

How well something OCR's is -- in my opinion -- completely based on the clarity of what you want to copy and the cost of the software.
Fancy fonts = not much accuracy with 'free'
Foreign language = very little acccuracy with 'free' software
mimeographed copy from 1983 == absolute failure

I have free OCR software that came with scanners from the early 2000's and 2015. Improvement with 2015 software - but still, not perfect.