OCR Prog

In case anyone interested

Found a Free OCR Prog. recommended on the OpenOffice Mail list.

Rabbit...

I've downloaded it for a try when I get a round tuit. My scanner came with
OCR software but this might be better.Thank you.

I have been messing about with it since yesterday and have now - I
think - got the hang of it.

Ponder...

I had a couple of tries with a particular document and it would have been
quicker to enter the lot by hand. I'll try with some other less complicated
documents later ;)

Ponder...

Ok, this is from a book I've been meaning to read for a long time and
have now finally started (can I hear a cheer from someone?) ;)

Jeff Gaines...

Hooray :-)

Scanning from books is an issue, the paper needs to be flat and 2 pages
might cause confusion. Can you take the book apart?

Ponder...

No, but I've done the whole of Chapter 1 in 30 mins with a different OCR
program ;)

(sorry about the file size it's really a renamed bmp but I want to get
the scanned quality across and not have Firefox ask to open an external
program to view it!)

This is the uncorrected output:

I stand by what I said originally, it'd be quicker to enter the lot by
hand. Pity really :(

You can scan a sheet from within the prog and then select which areas
you want - handy for eliminating the banners and general clutter on
Web pages. Then you end up with the image as scanned in the top
window of a split screen and the created text in an editable window
underneath, with errors highlighted.

You can check the errors with the scanned image and alter/correct as
reqd. The usual type of errors - V for Y etc. and spelling the prog
does not recognise.

Jeff

PS still got the Medion out of action, awaiting visit from Medion
engineer.

Rabbit...

Good luck, hope he finds the problem. You do know pmj's phone number if the
engineer needs any help ???:-)