I've used the Omnipro OCR that came with my Canon scanner, with good results. I've seen the scanners recently selling for about $50, so that's a good deal for scanner and OCR software. Don't skip the proofreading, though ;)
--- Steve Tilbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried OmniPage Pro 12 and it did a fair job at > OCR on TIF and JPEG > files created from English County Directories > (typeset). I don't have a > scanner to try on printed materials. > > It worked much better than previous versions and I > was quite impressed. > > But, this is by no means "good". You still need to > thoroughly proofread the > document afterwards. > > And, the "training" of the OCR software to recognize > the characters takes > hours. I would not recommend doing this on large > documents. And, the output > quality really depends on the input quality. > > Scantips.com has a deal on purchasing OmniPage Pro > 12: > http://www.scantips.com/ > > > Steve Tilbury > =========================== > steve at tilburyweb dot com > http://www.tilburyweb.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "HSP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 4:24 PM > Subject: [LegacyUG] OCR Program > > > This may be off topic but as a Legacy user and list > member, I thought I > would try this very active and mostly helpful list > first-- > Does anyone have a suggestion for a good Optical > Character Recognition > Program? I find that with all the new images > available online now, I have > many many images of pages from genealogy books. Most > from genealogy.com > online library. > These could be handled more easily if they could be > converted into text. I > realize I have to check carefully for errors after > using one, but I know > there must be some good OCR programs out there. They > wouldn't necessarily > have to be free. > Helen > > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found > at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable > archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
