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text recognition software
Hello
Can anyone recommend software that can turn scanned images of printed text into editable text.
I used to have something but lost it after a windows reinstall and cant remember what it was called.
Said I’d do a menu for a beauty therapist.
I hate typing loads of words.
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7 Replies
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James get them to supply it on disc, far easier.
there are many text recognition progs, you probably have one on a disc that came with your scanner?But not all are good, you can spend as much time correcting as just retyping….
Peter
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WOW
THIS GOT ME IN TO BIG TROUBLE ONCE, I DONE SOME FREELANCE WORK RUNNING THE PRE PRESS FOR A LOCAL PRINT COMPANY, I WAS ASKED TO SCAN IN A LOAD OF TEXT FOR L,OREAL HAIR PRODUCTS FROM OLD PUBLICATIONS, SO WE ORDERED AN A TEXT RECOGNITION SOFTWARE CALLED OPTOCOPY, WORKED WELL BUT I FAILED TO NOTICE THAT IN EVERY INSTANCE IT CHANGED THE WORD AND TOO ANAL!
SO GLAD THE PRINTER ON THE PRESS NOTICED, OPTOCOPY IS GOOD BUT DOES STRUGGLE ON ABOUT 10 PERCENT OF WORK TO SCAN.
I RARELY DO ANY SCANNING, BUT I THINK A LOT OF SCANNERS NOW COME WITH TEXT RECOGNITION SOFTWARE…..
SIMON
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cheers guys
Peter, thats where I thought the original came from, epson, but I cant find it on the disk, you might be right about it not saving much time but it might get me motivated to start.
Cant find much in google under optocopy Simon.
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sorry the process is actually called opticopy the package we bought was i think from memory omipage
http://www.exam-ta.ac.uk/omnipage.htm
cheers
simon
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James – if you have Microsoft Office you will find it also contains a text recognition utility.
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recently purchased a scanner, think that has ocr
also ‘full’ acrobat has some kinda of ocr
we would ask client to type if they can be bothered, send email and then copy/paste in.
When your there, get a partner to read the text as a fresh pair of eyes and also google is a good spell checker.
dave
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tks Simon
No Microsoft office Phill……maybe one day.
Dave, I have two scanners, a canon lide 80 which sits downstairs on an old pc, its came with OCR but now its saying invalid application.
The epson multi device doesn’t have anything.
what do you mean by google is a good spell checker?
I’ve found one to try ‘simple OCR’ so far its not up to much.
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