OCR'ing old manuals

From: Kevin Handy <kth_at_srv.net>
Date: Fri Sep 12 11:34:00 2003

Jules Richardson wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Any recommendations for OCR software (preferably Windows 2000 - spit!) that'll
>allow the user to read from a image file rather than the software being
>incorporated with scanner software?
>
>Pete kindly loaned me a whole pile of documentation, and I can get it back to
>him far quicker if I can just scan all the pages as TIFF images for now and
>worry about passing it through OCR software at a later date!
>
>It would also be nice if said software was a) free :) and b) able to
>automatically recurse through a directory tree (or at least run from the
>command line without user input so that I can script that)
>
>
Distributed Proofers seems to prefer Abbey Finereader, but it also costs
money. It apparently does very well with images that others choke on.
Received on Fri Sep 12 2003 - 11:34:00 BST