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| 516432 | 2007-01-16 07:43:00 | Does anyone have any recommendations or knowledge of OCR programmes which work successfully and might be free? I have a friend who has a document he wants to use as a base for amendment and it is 10 or 12 pages which could take him some little time to type, so we were wondering about an OCR programme of reasonable cost? TIA Bryden PS |
Bryden (4161) | ||
| 516433 | 2007-01-16 07:45:00 | Woops - hit the wrong button before I had finished! Thanks to everyone who helped over the driver question for W98 - I found them on DSE website and my friend can now use the flashdrives on her computer. Also installed the new freebie AVG programme, so she is a happy camper. |
Bryden (4161) | ||
| 516434 | 2007-01-16 07:52:00 | Excuse my ignorance buy what does OCR stand for ???? | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 516435 | 2007-01-16 07:58:00 | Ummm, I dont think there are too many free OCR programs. A few popular ones would be Omnipage Pro and Paperport I think it is. I think both are made by the same place. BUT, I don't think either are free. I've got Omnipage here but why it insists on trying to create a file before u actually try and scan text is anyone's guess lol. It was either asking to open or load some file. Cant remember now. I uninstalled it. There's a few shareware programs here (www.download.com) OCR = Optical Character Recognition (en.wikipedia.org) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 516436 | 2007-01-16 08:01:00 | Got it "Optical Character Recognition" :) Did you want to scan the document? From my experience in the publishing industry I would say if you were going to edit the document at any stage first you would have to type it in. I am not aware of any other successful methods out there since scanning doesn't allow you to edit afterwards. I don't know of any FREE bees apart from using Openoffice to base you doc in. Thanks Speedy. found our I was familiar with the explanation but not with the acronym. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 516437 | 2007-01-16 08:15:00 | Hi Bryden. Usually come free with scanner packages - for example my old HP scanner came with a reasonable OCR. The previous scanner had a similar, not identical, programme too. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 516438 | 2007-01-16 08:22:00 | Thanks for the replies - even though it wasn't quite what I wanted to learn! VBG (very big grin....) | Bryden (4161) | ||
| 516439 | 2007-01-16 08:49:00 | Got it "Optical Character Recognition" :) Did you want to scan the document? From my experience in the publishing industry I would say if you were going to edit the document at any stage first you would have to type it in. I am not aware of any other successful methods out there since scanning doesn't allow you to edit afterwards. I don't know of any FREE bees apart from using Openoffice to base you doc in. An OCR program will take a scanned image and turn it into an editable file if there is any text in it and I am very surprised if you are in the publishing industry that you don't know that.:waughh: I don't know of any Windows based free bees apart from the ones that come with the scanner but Linux has a few. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 516440 | 2007-01-16 08:52:00 | Winmacguy writes.... "From my experience in the publishing industry I would say if you were going to edit the document at any stage first you would have to type it in. I am not aware of any other successful methods out there since scanning doesn't allow you to edit afterwards" Editing after scanning is perfectly possible. I use PRESTO and after scanning copy it into Word and then edit to my liking. Presto is by Newsoft, but it is not free. It is excellent. Many scanners come with "free" OCR software. |
leonidas5 (2306) | ||
| 516441 | 2007-01-16 08:56:00 | An OCR program will take a scanned image and turn it into an editable file if there is any text in it and I am very surprised if you are in the publishing industry that you don't know that.:waughh: I don't know of any Windows based free bees apart from the ones that come with the scanner but Linux has a few. Probably because most of the text files we get have been typed by some other super fast typist person at 60wpm :) And the rest of the time is spent designing or formatting the text using style sheets and such. I scan documents at home with my HP scanner but I have never tried editing them. Guess you learn something new every day. ;) |
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