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| OCR scanner |
| Author: | Penny Bailey |
| Date: | Monday, 24th Dec 2007 14:29 |
| Views: | 521 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Computers and Software | | URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b228323 |
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Can anyone recommend a good OCR scanner and software to convert hardcopy text to electronic text?
It needs to be able to convert printed text, for example a contents page, and then convert it into a searchable format when the text is stored in a database. I don't mean scanners that create an image of the page. Does anyone have a successful implementation of this in practice please?
Many thanks. |
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 | OCR scanner | | Can anyone recommend a good OCR scanner and software to convert hardcopy text to electronic text?
It needs to be ... |
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Penny Bailey |
24/12/07 14:29 |
228323 |
 | Re: OCR scanner | | Penny,
every scanner can scan content to an image - it is the quality of the OCR Program which converts it ... |
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Timo Jacob |
10/01/08 12:16 |
235895 |
| | Re: OCR scanner | | Penny
ABBY Finereader is superb software:
http://finereader.abbyy.com/
that will scan into Microsoft Word.
As well as recognizing language & accents (in Polish!)
it even adjusts ... |
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Tom Szczepanik |
01/01/08 17:35 |
232463 |
| | Re: OCR scanner | | Before laying out cash for commercial products, would you consider looking at open source versions?
See:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/google-and-open-source-ocr.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr
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Garry Robbins |
28/12/07 01:42 |
230233 |
| | Re: OCR scanner | | Hi, Penny - I purchased a scanner and the OCR software separately, after researching the products for my needs. The ... |
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Robin Neidorf |
24/12/07 15:03 |
228335 |
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