On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:22:37 +1000 "Stephen Grant Brown" <steve.brown_...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Hi All, > What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given > immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely If you mean general retail receipts, are you sure this is a practical proposition? I have to look closely at various receipts I get in order to decipher dates and prices, often with the printed characters broken, and sometimes made with a dodgy printer. I keep a web-accessible database of 'important' receipts, but I just scan them to greyscale PNG and manually type in the goods, date, supplier and category. Even then, I sometimes have to tweak the scan parameters to get a (human-)legible result. I have seen a purpose-made business card scanner, which produced what I thought were amazing results about ten years ago, particularly given the infinite layout possibilities of cards. But it was seeing brand-new cards, with high quality commercial printing, not some wrinkled scrap of paper from an old thermal dot matrix printer, with the 'time-for-a-new-roll' red stripe down the middle. Best of luck. -- Joe
