On 23/04/2009 15:43, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:01:44 -0400
James Knott <[email protected]> dijo:
In addition to the above there's a third issue. By far the majority of
scanners and OCR "engines" on the market produce documents that are designed
for MS Office. Many will even invoke MS Word or Outlook automatically once
the OCR process is complete. Of course that's a problem if you don't have
either of those installed - which I don't. My scanner wanted to produce a
".doc" file and then automatically invoke Word. I can't separate those two
functions. In other words I can't make my scanner produce a ".doc" file and
then *not* invoke Word. I certainly can't get it to invoke Writer. The best
I can do with my scanner (HP 3770) is to make it scan to an RTF file and
then not invoke anything automatically. This is OK but RTF is a lot
feature-poorer than ".doc" so my results look a lot less like the original
than they could and therefore I have a lot more work to do.
I assume you're running Windows. Perhaps you could create a batch file
called "word", which in turn launches Writer.
That is a good suggestion.
Ermm. Sorry but it isn't. The OCR software, as one would expect, looks
in the Registry to find a registered copy of Word which it then invokes
with the appropriate "command line options" (or API syntax?) so that
Word opens with the recognised text in the right places. To make the
suggestion work one would have at least to fake the Word-related
Registry entries that get made when MS Office is installed. One would
then have to have software that would recognise the OCR software's
invocation and translate it into Writer's language. I'm afraid that's
beyond my technical capabilities.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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