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I need to be able to slap a line of digits with spaces on the top of each document generated, scan it in, OCR just that identifying line, and archive/file the document with the matching digits. Ideally, the scanning would be done with the ubiquitous settings of 300 dpi and saved as a JPEG. I'm using Clara to OCR the documents, though, and it seems to like 600 dpi a LOT better so far... Perhaps more pattern-training or more easily-identified characters would be help. Which have y'all found to work acceptably for this kind of application: Courier or other fixed-width font? MICR? barcode? ????? And *which* of the 700 barcode fonts I could buy works best? Or, which KINDS of fonts should I be looking at? .afm? .otf? TrueType? FreeType? These font guys sure like to make things complicated :-) I can embed the font in the PDF, right?... But how big will it be? Can I fairly easily strip out everything except 0123456789 and the space? OpenSource products are VASTLY preferred, if at all possible. On-line searches are leaving me with my head spinning in a sea of indistinguishable "solutions" :-( Any good "How-To" or comparison studies out there? To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
