Well according to the instructions its supposed to be able to work with
the plain text file created by coping the text out of the website. It
then goes thru the file and finds all the ads and batches them into a
file. This file is then emailed to our scrubber down in the dallas hub.
It checks the numbers against the do not call list ect. The scrubber
sends an email back letting us know how many good leads there were etc.
They are then dumped to our telemarketing center in Twin.
Anyway, back to the program though. For some reason its not finding the
ads in the plain text file. I called yesterday and they told me about
printing then scanning. With the OCR deal, either way you go, either
newspapers are scanned, or we somehow have to get the text into Abbey
fine reader, we do a few steps there, the have that program read
it(ocr), then save it and it saves it as html file. Doing it this way
the program for batching the ads will work. Im not sure why, but it
will. I have not yet tried it with converting a text file into a pdf
then opening that in the abbey reader. I will try that today though.
Yes, its a pain in the ass. The alternative is to have my people just
manually type in leads, which takes too much time.
Levi Smith wrote:
Are you sure they're not just looking for "plain text" instead of potential
html from a website?
If I'm understanding correctly, you are just looking for a plain text file
at the end, right? Or do you need a picture?
Oh wait.... This special program they have is what you have to use and that
program actually does the OCR and only takes in pictures. Is that right?
If that's the case... It would probably be quicker to just do a print
screen and pass it on to the program. But that would probably have it's own
issues...
Levi
On 8/8/06, Kaleb C. Striplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Its complicated actually. Im needing it for work. We have this deal
where we can scan newspapers ads, process them, batch them and send them
to our telemarketing people. Or we can pull leads from websites by
copying the text we want, it then will pull it into another program
where its then saved as a text file. For some reason the program thing
will not process those like that. According to my tmk people down in
orlando, you have to print the leads from the website, scan them, ocr
then then read them. Im wanting to avoid the printing step and just
convert a text file into a pdf. Confusing I know, and sort of stupid.
Mitch Haley wrote:
"Kaleb C. Striplin" wrote:
Anybody know of any free program that will convert a plain text file
into a pdf file, which can then be read by OCR software?
You want to convert text into .pdf, so you can OCR it back into text?
I think you could print it, scan the printout into an image, and print
the image to a .pdf if you have an Apple.
If you aren't making the .pdf from a picture, it should have text in it
that you can copy/paste into another program.
Mitch.
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