OCR software? Do any of you use it?

[ 07-10-2002, 10:50 AM: Message edited by: Arvon ]

Im not even sure if Ive ever heard of it. I think can safely say Ive never used it. Try doing a search at Yahoo or something to find out more.

What IS OCR software anyway?

I would have answered your question, if i had known the answer. Alas, my friend, no such thing !

OCR is software that converts scaned material into a text file for computers. It means Optical Character Reconizition.

I was wondering if anyone had some ideas of some of the 'better' packages.

OCR is Optical Character Resolution. It's a form of scanning which recognizes the characters in a scanned document and allows you to edit it like a word processing document. I use it occasionally.

The reason that I didn't answer your question Arvon is that the vast majority of your threads are old jokes off of the internet so I rarely open them.

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They may be a little out of date, but here are some reviews that may point you in the right direction.

I've used OmniPage for ages, with great success. It's rated with a 99% accuracy, and is multi-lingual, and multi-platform.

Try it. [img]graemlins/awesomework.gif[/img]

Thanks for the info...good site.

Thanks I'll give it a look into.

I have used OmniPage before, a while ago, it was fairly accurate, but you needed to put a good spell check on and check globally for odd characters it would put in. Most of the time it saves an awful lot of time typing, but now email has taken over, scanned documentation is not done so much.

Decent results though.

Cheers
Lady Zidane

E-mail is not a help...When one finds material , tables in a text you don't want to type it all in.God not with my typing...But thanks for the info.