Re: [Dspace-general] OCR software

Wally Grotophorst Mon, 09 May 2011 21:04:01 -0700

ABBYY is one of the best. Clearly best for Mac. Windows? You'll find OmniPage is the strongest.

Here's a comparison of 3 OCR packages for Mac...an experiment I ran a couple of years ago. Not much has changed in this area in that time.

http://timesync.gmu.edu/wordpress/?p=965

- Wally

Wally Grotophorst
George Mason University

Sam Kuper
May 9, 2011 10:53 PM
On 9 May 2011 17:31, Shixing Wen <[email protected]> wrote:

Could anyone share with me what OCR software you are using?

Adobe Acrobat 8 (Mac Edition).

I'm looking for a good OCR software that can produce accurate results from Tiff/jpeg images/files.

Works reasonably well for this.

Currently, we are using ABBYY FineReader but not happy with it, for it won't allow us to control the layout of the text that we key in where it fails to recognize.

Ah. Acrobat 8 doesn't really facilitate tweaking of recognised text. It can be done to a limited extent, but it's like performing keyhole surgery while blindfolded. On the plus side, this means you can cross it off your list of potential solutions to try out.

Have you looked into open source solutions? OCRopus, Tesseract, etc? If you've got a lot of documents to tweak, and a moderately skilled programmer at your disposal for a few hours, you could probably knock something together out of those that would suit your needs better than any off the shelf software.

- Sam
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