OCR of 644 TIFF files?

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Sun Feb 15 13:42:40 2004

>>>>> "Brad" == Brad Parker <brad_at_heeltoe.com> writes:

 Brad> Hi,

 Brad> If you had, say, 644 TIFF files, containing black and white
 Brad> scanned text from a patent application. And say, you wanted to
 Brad> turn that back into a text file, what would you do? The images
 Brad> contain code listings.

 Brad> Is a commercial OCR program the way to go? Any suggestions?
 Brad> Is there any freely-available OCR which would be up to the
 Brad> task?

 Brad> (it's the Symbolics 3600 patent)

Adobe Acrobat (the full version, not the reader) has a downloadable
OCR option that's quite good. The free version can do 50 pages at a
time, so it takes a bit of work to do that many pages, but it can be
done. I've used it for a several hundred page document..

       paul
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