RE: OCR Solutions
Jim, Ryan works for me and we are working on the same project together :) -mark -Original Message- From: Jim Rising [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 11:50 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OCR Solutions haha... ryan stille asked me the same thing. :) here is what i replied: we've been using the efaxdeveloper api to handle all of this right now, and have not started testing the java4less stuff yet. the company i'm working on that for is wanting to release to beta using efax and then evaluate other options later. unfortunately, with the way that the agreements are setup with the contract i'm on, i can't give out any of the efaxdeveloper code i'm working on... but i could possibly work on the java4less stuff for you and build a CFC wrapper for it that you could use it to generate barcodes and read them. shouldn't be too hard. -jim On 12/6/07, Mark Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim, > > Do you have any CF code using that java4less vision jar? > > -mark > > -Original Message- > From: Jim Rising [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 6:54 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: OCR Solutions > > one quick note here... if you're using fax... efaxdeveloper.com has > the whole package... they will generate the datamatrix barcode via a > servlet for you, and they will check incoming fax for a barcode. the > api passes you an xml packet via http post (there are other methods > available) that contains the information found in the barcode along > with the fax document in base64. > that's what i'm currently using for the project i've been working on, > but because of the costs associated with efax, we'll soon be moving to > another fax provider... and will start using something more along the > lines of the java4less stuff to handle the barcode creation and reading. > > -jim > > > On 12/5/07, Ryan Stille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Has anyone else been having problems with the list missing emails, > > or coming through 8+ hours after it was originally posted? I don't > > have the original message for this thread. The web archive shows it > > was posted around lunch today. > > > > Anyway, I am going to need to implement something like this soon. > > Our images will come in via email, then I need to OCR a customer ID > > out of it and import appropriately. > > > > I was looking at JavaOCR (http://javaocr.com) and Asprise OCR, also > > written in Java. So they should easily integrate with ColdFusion. > > Neither are free. > > > > There are also several (free) open source OCR packages: > > > > GOCR http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ > > Ocrad http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html > > Tesseract > > _http://google- > > code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-tesseract-ocr.html_ > > > > But I have not looked into any of them yet. But the barcode stuff > > Jim Rising mentioned (glad I checked the archive, as I don't have > > that email > > either...) looks very interesting, and it looks like its a lot > > cheaper than OCR. My images are actually coming in via fax, so > > OCR'ing that quality of an image may be a challenge. I think the > > barcode may perform better. > > > > -Ryan > > > > Dave Watts wrote: > > >> Does anyone know of any ocr solutions that can be made to work > > >> with ColdFusion? What I'd like to do is have documents scanned > > >> and emailed to a coldFusion server and then OCR'ed to find a > > >> person's name or account number. The number will be used to > > >> match the document to a database record so the document can be > > >> attached to their account. > > >> > > > > > > Since lots of scanners come with OCR solutions, why not do it there? > > Adobe > > > Acrobat does this quite well, in my opinion. > > > > > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ > > > > > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > > > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > > > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > > > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294336 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: OCR Solutions
haha... ryan stille asked me the same thing. :) here is what i replied: we've been using the efaxdeveloper api to handle all of this right now, and have not started testing the java4less stuff yet. the company i'm working on that for is wanting to release to beta using efax and then evaluate other options later. unfortunately, with the way that the agreements are setup with the contract i'm on, i can't give out any of the efaxdeveloper code i'm working on... but i could possibly work on the java4less stuff for you and build a CFC wrapper for it that you could use it to generate barcodes and read them. shouldn't be too hard. -jim On 12/6/07, Mark Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim, > > Do you have any CF code using that java4less vision jar? > > -mark > > -Original Message- > From: Jim Rising [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 6:54 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: OCR Solutions > > one quick note here... if you're using fax... efaxdeveloper.com has the > whole package... they will generate the datamatrix barcode via a servlet > for > you, and they will check incoming fax for a barcode. the api passes you an > xml packet via http post (there are other methods available) that contains > the information found in the barcode along with the fax document in > base64. > that's what i'm currently using for the project i've been working on, but > because of the costs associated with efax, we'll soon be moving to another > fax provider... and will start using something more along the lines of the > java4less stuff to handle the barcode creation and reading. > > -jim > > > On 12/5/07, Ryan Stille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Has anyone else been having problems with the list missing emails, or > > coming through 8+ hours after it was originally posted? I don't have > > the original message for this thread. The web archive shows it was > > posted around lunch today. > > > > Anyway, I am going to need to implement something like this soon. Our > > images will come in via email, then I need to OCR a customer ID out of > > it and import appropriately. > > > > I was looking at JavaOCR (http://javaocr.com) and Asprise OCR, also > > written in Java. So they should easily integrate with ColdFusion. > > Neither are free. > > > > There are also several (free) open source OCR packages: > > > > GOCR http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ > > Ocrad http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html > > Tesseract > > _http://google- > > code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-tesseract-ocr.html_ > > > > But I have not looked into any of them yet. But the barcode stuff Jim > > Rising mentioned (glad I checked the archive, as I don't have that > > email > > either...) looks very interesting, and it looks like its a lot cheaper > > than OCR. My images are actually coming in via fax, so OCR'ing that > > quality of an image may be a challenge. I think the barcode may > > perform better. > > > > -Ryan > > > > Dave Watts wrote: > > >> Does anyone know of any ocr solutions that can be made to work with > > >> ColdFusion? What I'd like to do is have documents scanned and > > >> emailed to a coldFusion server and then OCR'ed to find a person's > > >> name or account number. The number will be used to match the > > >> document to a database record so the document can be attached to > > >> their account. > > >> > > > > > > Since lots of scanners come with OCR solutions, why not do it there? > > Adobe > > > Acrobat does this quite well, in my opinion. > > > > > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > > > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > > > > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > > > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > > > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > > > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294335 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: OCR Solutions
Jim, Do you have any CF code using that java4less vision jar? -mark -Original Message- From: Jim Rising [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 6:54 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OCR Solutions one quick note here... if you're using fax... efaxdeveloper.com has the whole package... they will generate the datamatrix barcode via a servlet for you, and they will check incoming fax for a barcode. the api passes you an xml packet via http post (there are other methods available) that contains the information found in the barcode along with the fax document in base64. that's what i'm currently using for the project i've been working on, but because of the costs associated with efax, we'll soon be moving to another fax provider... and will start using something more along the lines of the java4less stuff to handle the barcode creation and reading. -jim On 12/5/07, Ryan Stille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone else been having problems with the list missing emails, or > coming through 8+ hours after it was originally posted? I don't have > the original message for this thread. The web archive shows it was > posted around lunch today. > > Anyway, I am going to need to implement something like this soon. Our > images will come in via email, then I need to OCR a customer ID out of > it and import appropriately. > > I was looking at JavaOCR (http://javaocr.com) and Asprise OCR, also > written in Java. So they should easily integrate with ColdFusion. > Neither are free. > > There are also several (free) open source OCR packages: > > GOCR http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ > Ocrad http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html > Tesseract > _http://google- > code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-tesseract-ocr.html_ > > But I have not looked into any of them yet. But the barcode stuff Jim > Rising mentioned (glad I checked the archive, as I don't have that > email > either...) looks very interesting, and it looks like its a lot cheaper > than OCR. My images are actually coming in via fax, so OCR'ing that > quality of an image may be a challenge. I think the barcode may > perform better. > > -Ryan > > Dave Watts wrote: > >> Does anyone know of any ocr solutions that can be made to work with > >> ColdFusion? What I'd like to do is have documents scanned and > >> emailed to a coldFusion server and then OCR'ed to find a person's > >> name or account number. The number will be used to match the > >> document to a database record so the document can be attached to > >> their account. > >> > > > > Since lots of scanners come with OCR solutions, why not do it there? > Adobe > > Acrobat does this quite well, in my opinion. > > > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > > > > > > ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294332 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: OCR Solutions
> Then press send. (The copy machines I have seen don't have > good ways of typing in much beyond just numbers, so if they > had to type in the domain name too for the email address, > that would be a deal breaker--nobody would do it.) A few years back, I worked a little with Xerox Docushare and related hardware solutions. One of the things you could do was fill out a cover form with pen and paper, and the machine would automatically OCR it and post the document to the appropriate repository based on the data input from the form. The form itself would generally be limited to pretty simple input; you'd use a comb (something like this: |_|_|_|_|) for entering letters and numbers. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294330 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: OCR Solutions
if you're using fax... why not an inbound fax on demand solution? put an avr menu in front that asks the user for account information (via touchtone) prior to giving them a fax tone. you could probably do this with asterisk but i know that companies like faxBack (www.faxback.com) support this sort of setup too. we actually went down the road with faxBack until we found out that they needed support of SIP REFER from our 3rd party SIP gateway if you're wanting to do fax over T.38 using voip. problem is... no 3rd party SIP gateway provider will support SIP REFER because it allows un-metered voip calls. with the volume of calls that we're anticipating, an analog solution just would not work... but faxBack would probably work well for what you're wanting to do. the IRS uses it... so it can't be half bad. :) -jim On 12/6/07, E C list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you again everyone who has been helping me. I > wasn't aware of this > machine, and it is very interesting. That may be a > potential solution. > > The barcode idea is one that I have considered but it > isn't very practical > for us. The reason I say that is that we have > hundreds of customers and new > ones are added daily. Usually you'd only have one or > two documents that > need to scanned, so it would not be practical if > someone had to stop and > make barcodes and then stick them on a document (we > don't generate all of > the documents here so we can't just put barcodes on > the documents when they > are created--some of the documents in question would > be invoices from > suppliers for materials and things like that...). > > My other possible solution besides using Barcodes or > OCR is to get a > copier/scanner machine that will send emails as > described before. But what > I picture is that the machine would already know the > domain where the email > is going to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so the sales guy would > walk up to the machine > and type in the unique 5 digit id for the customer as > the email address. > Then press send. (The copy machines I have seen don't > have good ways of > typing in much beyond just numbers, so if they had to > type in the domain > name too for the email address, that would be a deal > breaker--nobody would > do it.) I'd have to find the right copy machine to do > that. I think the > Sharp AR-M277 would possibly do that, but I have to > put my hands on one to > see. I would set up the email server with a catch-all > email address that > would accept [EMAIL PROTECTED] when > [EMAIL PROTECTED] comes in, > coldFusion would POP it and then use the name as the > ID number and VOILA. > > Any more comments or ideas appreciated. > > -Original Message- > From: David Livingston > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:26 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: OCR Solutions > > I don't know what your budget is but we have used > these in several document > management solutions and they seem to be pretty idiot > proof. > Plus you can collect data and do ocr. > > > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/15179-15179-64195-12126-64404- > 3330619.html > > Dave > > On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:32 PM, Dave Watts wrote: > > >> What I actually plan to do is get a copy > machine/scanner combination > >> with a sheet feeder that can email scanned > documents. > > > > Then get one that automatically does OCR! Xerox has > solutions that do > > this. > > All you have to do is put the paper in. > > > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber > vendor-authorized > > instruction at our training centers in Washington > DC, Atlanta, > > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at > your location. > > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more > information! > > > > > > > > > > ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294324 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: OCR Solutions
Thank you again everyone who has been helping me. I wasn't aware of this machine, and it is very interesting. That may be a potential solution. The barcode idea is one that I have considered but it isn't very practical for us. The reason I say that is that we have hundreds of customers and new ones are added daily. Usually you'd only have one or two documents that need to scanned, so it would not be practical if someone had to stop and make barcodes and then stick them on a document (we don't generate all of the documents here so we can't just put barcodes on the documents when they are created--some of the documents in question would be invoices from suppliers for materials and things like that...). My other possible solution besides using Barcodes or OCR is to get a copier/scanner machine that will send emails as described before. But what I picture is that the machine would already know the domain where the email is going to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so the sales guy would walk up to the machine and type in the unique 5 digit id for the customer as the email address. Then press send. (The copy machines I have seen don't have good ways of typing in much beyond just numbers, so if they had to type in the domain name too for the email address, that would be a deal breaker--nobody would do it.) I'd have to find the right copy machine to do that. I think the Sharp AR-M277 would possibly do that, but I have to put my hands on one to see. I would set up the email server with a catch-all email address that would accept [EMAIL PROTECTED] when [EMAIL PROTECTED] comes in, coldFusion would POP it and then use the name as the ID number and VOILA. Any more comments or ideas appreciated. -Original Message- From: David Livingston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OCR Solutions I don't know what your budget is but we have used these in several document management solutions and they seem to be pretty idiot proof. Plus you can collect data and do ocr. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/15179-15179-64195-12126-64404- 3330619.html Dave On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:32 PM, Dave Watts wrote: >> What I actually plan to do is get a copy machine/scanner combination >> with a sheet feeder that can email scanned documents. > > Then get one that automatically does OCR! Xerox has solutions that do > this. > All you have to do is put the paper in. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294317 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: OCR Solutions
I don't know what your budget is but we have used these in several document management solutions and they seem to be pretty idiot proof. Plus you can collect data and do ocr. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/15179-15179-64195-12126-64404-3330619.html Dave On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:32 PM, Dave Watts wrote: >> What I actually plan to do is get a copy >> machine/scanner combination with a sheet >> feeder that can email scanned documents. > > Then get one that automatically does OCR! Xerox has solutions that > do this. > All you have to do is put the paper in. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294308 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: OCR Solutions
one quick note here... if you're using fax... efaxdeveloper.com has the whole package... they will generate the datamatrix barcode via a servlet for you, and they will check incoming fax for a barcode. the api passes you an xml packet via http post (there are other methods available) that contains the information found in the barcode along with the fax document in base64. that's what i'm currently using for the project i've been working on, but because of the costs associated with efax, we'll soon be moving to another fax provider... and will start using something more along the lines of the java4less stuff to handle the barcode creation and reading. -jim On 12/5/07, Ryan Stille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone else been having problems with the list missing emails, or > coming through 8+ hours after it was originally posted? I don't have > the original message for this thread. The web archive shows it was > posted around lunch today. > > Anyway, I am going to need to implement something like this soon. Our > images will come in via email, then I need to OCR a customer ID out of > it and import appropriately. > > I was looking at JavaOCR (http://javaocr.com) and Asprise OCR, also > written in Java. So they should easily integrate with ColdFusion. > Neither are free. > > There are also several (free) open source OCR packages: > > GOCR http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ > Ocrad http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html > Tesseract > _http://google- > code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-tesseract-ocr.html_ > > But I have not looked into any of them yet. But the barcode stuff Jim > Rising mentioned (glad I checked the archive, as I don't have that email > either...) looks very interesting, and it looks like its a lot cheaper > than OCR. My images are actually coming in via fax, so OCR'ing that > quality of an image may be a challenge. I think the barcode may perform > better. > > -Ryan > > Dave Watts wrote: > >> Does anyone know of any ocr solutions that can be made to > >> work with ColdFusion? What I'd like to do is have documents > >> scanned and emailed to a coldFusion server and then OCR'ed to > >> find a person's name or account number. The number will be > >> used to match the document to a database record so the > >> document can be attached to their account. > >> > > > > Since lots of scanners come with OCR solutions, why not do it there? > Adobe > > Acrobat does this quite well, in my opinion. > > > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > > > > > > ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294304 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: OCR Solutions
i still don't see the point in doing this with OCR. it just seems like overkill, and more trouble than what it's worth. if all you're needing is an account number to associate the documents with, generate a datamatrix barcode containing the account number, and when the salesperson is scanning in the documents, just make sure that the sheet containing the barcode is the coversheet, or is on the account info sheet. scan them all in as a single tif or pdf (probably better just to fax and use some fax on demand solution to generate the pdf / tif file) ... and have the java4less 'vision' barcode reader run as a CF scheduled task every 5 minutes or so looking for files to consume and attach to accounts. (or setup a gateway as a directory watcher?) just be sure to have a manual process built in for pending files that did not get recognized for whatever reason so that you can put some eyes on them. -jim On 12/5/07, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What I actually plan to do is get a copy > > machine/scanner combination with a sheet > > feeder that can email scanned documents. > > Then get one that automatically does OCR! Xerox has solutions that do > this. > All you have to do is put the paper in. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294301 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: OCR Solutions
> What I actually plan to do is get a copy > machine/scanner combination with a sheet > feeder that can email scanned documents. Then get one that automatically does OCR! Xerox has solutions that do this. All you have to do is put the paper in. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294281 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: OCR Solutions
Has anyone else been having problems with the list missing emails, or coming through 8+ hours after it was originally posted? I don't have the original message for this thread. The web archive shows it was posted around lunch today. Anyway, I am going to need to implement something like this soon. Our images will come in via email, then I need to OCR a customer ID out of it and import appropriately. I was looking at JavaOCR (http://javaocr.com) and Asprise OCR, also written in Java. So they should easily integrate with ColdFusion. Neither are free. There are also several (free) open source OCR packages: GOCR http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ Ocrad http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html Tesseract _http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-tesseract-ocr.html_ But I have not looked into any of them yet. But the barcode stuff Jim Rising mentioned (glad I checked the archive, as I don't have that email either...) looks very interesting, and it looks like its a lot cheaper than OCR. My images are actually coming in via fax, so OCR'ing that quality of an image may be a challenge. I think the barcode may perform better. -Ryan Dave Watts wrote: >> Does anyone know of any ocr solutions that can be made to >> work with ColdFusion? What I'd like to do is have documents >> scanned and emailed to a coldFusion server and then OCR'ed to >> find a person's name or account number. The number will be >> used to match the document to a database record so the >> document can be attached to their account. >> > > Since lots of scanners come with OCR solutions, why not do it there? Adobe > Acrobat does this quite well, in my opinion. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > > ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294279 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: OCR Solutions
Well, I don't think that is going to work for me. What I actually plan to do is get a copy machine/scanner combination with a sheet feeder that can email scanned documents. A salesman will come in with a contract or a project manager with an invoice for purchased materials and stick it in the sheet feeder and press go. The scan will then be sent directly to the server. The server will somehow read the document, find a person's name or account number and then attach it to their record in the database. The thing is, that if it gets too complicated for the sales guy, they aren't going to do it. That's why we want to use a copy machine... Thanks again. -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 6:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OCR Solutions > Does anyone know of any ocr solutions that can be made to work with > ColdFusion? What I'd like to do is have documents scanned and emailed > to a coldFusion server and then OCR'ed to find a person's name or > account number. The number will be used to match the document to a > database record so the document can be attached to their account. Since lots of scanners come with OCR solutions, why not do it there? Adobe Acrobat does this quite well, in my opinion. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294275 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: OCR Solutions
> Does anyone know of any ocr solutions that can be made to > work with ColdFusion? What I'd like to do is have documents > scanned and emailed to a coldFusion server and then OCR'ed to > find a person's name or account number. The number will be > used to match the document to a database record so the > document can be attached to their account. Since lots of scanners come with OCR solutions, why not do it there? Adobe Acrobat does this quite well, in my opinion. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294263 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=<:emailid:>.<:userid:>.<:listid:>
Re: OCR Solutions
you should use a barcode ... particularly a datamatrix barcode, which is much more robust than most. i've done this using efaxdeveloper.com (which comes with this feature), but have been looking into using this to produce the barcodes: http://www.java4less.com/barcodes/barcodes.php and this to read them: http://www.java4less.com/vision/vision.php?info=intro -jim On 12/5/07, Eron Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know of any ocr solutions that can be made to work with > ColdFusion? What I'd like to do is have documents scanned and emailed to a > coldFusion server and then OCR'ed to find a person's name or account > number. The number will be used to match the document to a database record > so the document can be attached to their account. > > Thank you for any ideas > > ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294251 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
