OCR

Angelstardust Dedicated Member Posts: 2,414	OCR Jan 7, 2010 21:16:14 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Angelstardust on Jan 7, 2010 21:16:14 GMT Can anybody recommend a good free OCR system? The Omnipage that I got with my scanner is not performing well with saving as text.

mikkh Moderator Linux Posts: 2,967	OCR Jan 7, 2010 23:46:17 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mikkh on Jan 7, 2010 23:46:17 GMT There are several online utilities like this one www.newocr.com/ or this one www.free-ocr.com/ Or this to download www.topocr.com/download.html and a handy tutorial www.topocr.com/mtutorial.html
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martytoo Full Member Posts: 115	OCR Jan 8, 2010 20:55:21 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by martytoo on Jan 8, 2010 20:55:21 GMT Do you by any chance have Office 2007? If so then you have OCR built in look in Microsoft Office then Microsoft Office Tools - Microsoft Document Imaging this is an OCR utility it's not perfect but it works.

Angelstardust Dedicated Member Posts: 2,414	OCR Jan 8, 2010 21:10:04 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Angelstardust on Jan 8, 2010 21:10:04 GMT I am currently using 2003, unless I have an offer ......

elvisuk Guest	OCR Jan 9, 2010 2:12:21 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by elvisuk on Jan 9, 2010 2:12:21 GMT www.newocr.com/ It's FREE

Angelstardust Dedicated Member Posts: 2,414	OCR Jan 10, 2010 17:51:34 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Angelstardust on Jan 10, 2010 17:51:34 GMT I have looked at all of them, but they all need either an image to be uploaded or an image to be created, I was thinking more of an OCR that works with my scanner and creates a doc from a scanned doc, which is what Omnipage has been doing.

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