Thanks to all who responded to my request for help and advice. I have
spent the last day or so checking them all out.
To Ward & Carl - no, OCR is not included in my Scanner which is an
Epson Perfection 4490. To JLB, the docs I want to copy are way to long to
do a split screen and type. T
Many thanks to all who responded to my second request. Lots of great
suggestions! For the time being I think I will stick with FreeOCR
recommended by GeneY which seems to work fine for my use. One question,
Gene - is a tutorial available somewhere for FreeOCR? I'm figuring out a few
things by tria
Bill Rhodes wrote:
Thanks to all who responded to my request for help and advice. I
have spent the last day or so checking them all out.
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My
question is, will it or any of the other for sale OCR's do a better job
than the FreeOCR, or do they all work the same and
produc
Hi Bill,
According to the add from epson america the 4490 comes with loads of
software. It advertises ABBY fine reader which is an OCR. If you have the
cd's that came with the machine check out if the ABBY software is there to
load.
In my experience there is nearly always something to clean up.
Bill,
You should consider the possibility that the exercise of transcribing, and
then abstracting, the document(s) would be beneficial in a number of ways. I
always find that I learn so much in the process of transcribing. I see
things that I didn¹t notice before, and somehow I just absorb the doc
Bill,
I've been following this thread with interest. I must say I agree
with Janis. Transcribing the documents, even just the essential
parts, has helped me more than once to put some pieces of the puzzle
together that I might not have seen if I were simply scanning and
saving.
Just my FWIW. (
>> On 5/8/09 3:42 PM, "Bill Rhodes" wrote:
>>
>> Thanks to all who responded to my request for help and advice. I have
>> spent the last day or so checking them all out.
>> To Ward & Carl - no, OCR is not included in my Scanner which is an
>> Epson Perfection 4490. To JLB, the docs I
Bill Rhodes wrote:
Many thanks to all who responded to my second request. Lots of great
suggestions! For the time being I think I will stick with FreeOCR
recommended by GeneY which seems to work fine for my use. One question,
Gene - is a tutorial available somewhere for FreeOCR? I'm figuring o
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