OCR'ing old manuals

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Fri Sep 12 19:41:00 2003

Omnipage Pro

At 03:01 AM 9/12/03, you 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)
>
>cheers
>
>Jules
>
>
>
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Received on Fri Sep 12 2003 - 19:41:00 BST

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