OCR

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Glenn

I have seen a few OCR's mentioned but seems they need "twain" drivers.

I have a older (yeah, real old, maybe 3 years?), "Microtek scanmaker 6X EPP"
(the epp stands for "extended parallel port" which convinces it is a SCSI
when it isn't ;) ) that worked on win98 but the twain doesn't seem to work
with the XP adaptation. There is no help from Microtek. Believe me, I
tried. They want to sell me a new one.

Sorry for the long explanation but I felt it was needed.

Is there any freebee programs out there that are the answer to my problems?

Glenn
 
I have seen a few OCR's mentioned but seems they need "twain" drivers.

I have a older (yeah, real old, maybe 3 years?), "Microtek scanmaker 6X EPP"
(the epp stands for "extended parallel port" which convinces it is a SCSI
when it isn't ;) ) that worked on win98 but the twain doesn't seem to work
with the XP adaptation. There is no help from Microtek. Believe me, I
tried. They want to sell me a new one.

Sorry for the long explanation but I felt it was needed.

Is there any freebee programs out there that are the answer to my problems?
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Most OCR software will import and convert saved graphics files to text.

Can you scan with the built-in Windows XP WIA scanning support? If so, can
you save as TIF or BMP and import it into your OCR software?

Bob
 
Bob Adkins said:
problems?


Most OCR software will import and convert saved graphics files to text.

Can you scan with the built-in Windows XP WIA scanning support? If so, can
you save as TIF or BMP and import it into your OCR software?

Bob
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Don't know, I'll try. As yet, I haven't any OCR software. With the XP
Microtek version, it isn't included or if it is, I can't find it. [g]

On second thought, yes, the scanner allows me to save TIF, BMP, you name it.
I didn't know that from there, I could input it into OCR. I thought the
scanner had to do it directly. I'm learning.

Glenn
 
Glenn said:
On second thought, yes, the scanner allows me to save TIF, BMP, you name it.
I didn't know that from there, I could input it into OCR. I thought the
scanner had to do it directly. I'm learning.

Glenn
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IIRC scan at about 300 dpi for best results. Save as or convert to a
black and white TIF.

Susan
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I survived. Glass of wine at 6:00 and a glass of champagne at midnight
leaves you in pretty good shape. [g]

OK. I went. I got. I tried. I failed. I must be doing something wrong.

I scanned a form that the county uses to apply for absentee ballots to vote.
I could have just copied them but I wanted to fill in the forms on the
computer even though there were only 6 ea for my wife and me. Why have a
computer if you have to write, right?

Used SimpleOCR. It converted it to text OK but deleted ALL formatting.
Letterhead lines all started on the left. All the same font and size. Logo
was GONE. All the lines on the page to write on were gone. I must have done
something terribly wrong. Like maybe using SimpleOCR?

I do have a good (and expensive) picture working program. I scanned it into
there, used my text printer function and entered all the text I would have,
had it worked in Word. They printed out perfectly.

Glenn
 
Glenn said:
OK. I went. I got. I tried. I failed. I must be doing something wrong.

I scanned a form that the county uses to apply for absentee ballots to vote.
I could have just copied them but I wanted to fill in the forms on the
computer even though there were only 6 ea for my wife and me. Why have a
computer if you have to write, right?

Used SimpleOCR. It converted it to text OK but deleted ALL formatting.
Letterhead lines all started on the left. All the same font and size. Logo
was GONE. All the lines on the page to write on were gone. I must have done
something terribly wrong. Like maybe using SimpleOCR?
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Yup. OCR isn't meant for that kind of use . . . ;)
I do have a good (and expensive) picture working program. I scanned it into
there, used my text printer function and entered all the text I would have,
had it worked in Word. They printed out perfectly.
Click to expand...

Good thinking. :)

Susan
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I can see that maybe you can't use it to make forms although when it works
it in Word (which has a forms making feature), I wrongly assumed it would.

What surprised me was all formatting and all different fonts were reduced to
nothing. I would think it would be as easy to retype a document as having
to set-up each line for centering for instance and setting the font on each
different place on the page. If you want OCR so you can go in and change a
line that is wrong, I can see that. However it looks like you would have to
rework the whole page anyway.

Thanks for the info, anyway.

Glenn
 
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