Optical character recognition (OCR) is the process of converting images of written or printed text into a standard text format. It is used when scanning paper documents or books to create a searchable text representation. Similar technologies include speech-recognition (speech to text) ...
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OCR Image based PDF [closed]
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Extracting text from a .PDF scanned book
How to do OCR on a PDF document?
I've got a >200 page pdf manual that was produced by scanning hard copy. I'd like to convert ...
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How does the OCR in Abbyy Finereader Pro 11 (Win) compare to FR Express 8 (Mac) [closed]
I am wondering how the OCR performance of Abbyy Finereader Express 8.2 for Mac compares to the latest Windows version of the same program.
Is the Mac version really three iterations behind, or are ...
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Batch-OCR many PDFs
This has been discussed a year ago here:
Batch OCR for many PDF files (not already OCRed)?
Is there any way to batch OCR PDFs that haven't been already OCRed? This is, I think, the current state of ...
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How to format two column OCR PDF into one column
I am having trouble reading a PDF on my Kindle because the OCR text is displayed in two columns per page. (IE The book was scanned two pages at a time, them OCR'd.) How can I format this into one ...
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Optimal lossy compression of images
I have a lot of images/documents, where I want quite a low filesize, without throwing away to much information, or cause generation loss with future compression.
A) Documents, business cards etc ...
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Apply metadata to files based on OCR of their content
Essentially I'm looking for a tool (Windows/Mac) that will allow me the following workflow:
Scan ALL my documents into a folder (200-300 scanned images)
run the tool that will go through all the ...
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Replace (OCR) garbled text in PDF?
Now and then I come across a PDF which looks fine in first place but the underlying text is garbled.
Currently I have a PDF where only the headings are garbled and I would like to know if it's ...
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Productivity tool to copy non copyable text from screen in a single step
Is there any tool with functionality of a screen capture and OCR in a single step, which sends the text selected to the clipboard.
If you are familiar with wordweb , what I mean is more like its ...
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OCR software for Windows, with support for non-English language
Precisely, I would like to find an OCR software which can convert PDF files and images to text.
Also, it should support "Hungarian" language. I tried looking around, searching for such a software, ...
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Stripping Non-Text from a Scanned, OCRd PDF
I have a PDF created from a scanned document. OCR was used to recognize text. In Acrobat, if I select text, and click 'copy with formatting', I can paste the formatted text into Word, so it seems that ...
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Is there free OCR software that works well for source code?
I am trying to convert the screenshot given in this Stack Overflow question to a textual representation. I already did it by hand, but I'd like not to have to do that sort of thing again in the ...
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Why does Acrobat X Pro show documents blurry briefly after compression?
I am using Adobe Acrobt X Pro and utilize the tool under document processing labeled "Optimize Scanned PDF". When doing so, it always warns me:
Acrobat has detected a page that is already optimized. ...
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Tesseract 3.01 not as accurate as 3.00?
I've just upgraded from Tesseract 3.00 to 3.01, as the multi-thread safe update is important to me.
First thing I noticed is that on my test image, 3.01 is less accurate. It makes many mistakes that ...
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3rd party software for parsing (OCRing) receipts?
I need to organize a large number of scanned receipts. The receipts are scanned in PDF, and I need is software that will intelligently look at a document and parse out date, location / vendor, total ...
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Where is the OCR utility in Office 2010? [closed]
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How do I Initiate an OCR scan in Microsoft Office Word 2010?
Where is the OCR utility in the 2010 Office suite?
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What's the most reliable, accurate & least manual shopping/expenses paper receipt/bill/invoice automated OCR scanner solution (hw+sw) on Windows? [closed]
I'm looking to automate tracking my expenses by scanning in receipts/bills/invoices from purchases at shops etc.
What's the most reliable (i.e. most accurate and consistent) and least manual ...
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Math and chemistry OCR [closed]
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What is the best Math OCR app?
What OCR software can distinguish between the theta symbol, superscripts, subscripts, Greek letters, pi, radicals... chemical diagrams...
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Scanning Hebrew text
What OCR programs and resources are available to scan Hebrew/Yiddish text?
One program per answer please, and please include the following:
Price
Link to download or purchase site
Does it work with ...
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Convert text in video to copyable text?
How can I take a video of documents (pages are in very high quality, and that if scanned could easially be converted to text with OCR...) and convert it to text? I know that SRI has basically exactly ...
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Install tesseract ocr 3 on OSX
I am trying to install Tesseract OCR on OSX 10.6...
I have got as far as installing leptonic (by downloading src from http://www.leptonica.org/download.html and installing with ./configure; make; ...
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Digitize textbook
How can I digitize my physics textbook? It's huge and I don't want to cut the spine.
I saw a picture of this: Ion Audio
I want to know what's most important when making my own. I have a digital ...
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Batch image OCR sorter [closed]
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OCR batch processing images
I have about 50000 jpeg webshots (800x600 px) which I want to sort within Windows folders by text containg each image. Is there any program ...
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Best program for sorting images with text with OCR?
I have a thousands web shot images made by HTML2Image software in JPEG format, I have extracted huge list of website URL's which I have made a thousands of website JPEG image website snapshots.
I ...
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OCR of engineering drawings?
What's the best solution for OCR analysis of handwritten text strings that appear on a map?
More in-depth explanation of what I'm looking for:
I'm working on a large data processing effort involving ...
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Is there a lightweight app to quickly OCR console/code style text
It's not uncommon for a code snippet to be posted on the internet, or even on a stack exchange site where someone has taken a screenshot of code.
Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to convert ...
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Image Post-Processing : Unpaper
I try to make Unpaper to work, it's a very powerfull tool to post-process scanned book pages. I read the Doc but still can't make it work neither on Windows nor on Linux.
My picture is a Bitmap I ...
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Copy image and paste to OCR
Running Win 7. Is there OCR freeware that easily allows copy of a picture and paste into the conversion program. I have no scanner at this time. Want to convert stored images.
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What's the better OCR software? [closed]
I'm using tesseract-ocr for a long time, but, it doesn't work so well.
I found this site (http://www.onlineocr.net/default.aspx) that works great.
Someone knew another OCR software, maybe free?
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Handwritten recognition software?
I was wondering if there are some descent handwritten recognition software? I have tried several OCR applications, but they can only work well on scanned printed documents, not on scanned handwritten ...
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Is there a better way to correct errors in Adobe Acrobat's OCR results?
I'm using OCR Text Recognition integrated into Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 to produce an (invisible) searchable text overlay for text pages I have scanned. This is very neat for copying some phrases to the ...
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OCR Image Recognition Plugin For Firefox And Chrome?
Sometimes in need to OCR images that i stumble upon on some webpages. I would like to know if there are any plugins for Firefox and Chrome that would allow me to upload desired image for processing on ...
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Can a OCR confuse letter case?
Can a OCR sometimes confuse between letter case?
For example 't' interpreted as 'T' or 'r' as 'R' at some point?
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Is there an OCR software that can recognize a font from a text in a raster image? [closed]
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Font recognition software
Sometimes I find images whose text I'd like to modify or add to it, but as they're raster images, of course the font information is lost.
Maybe ...
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PDF has an extra blank in all words after running through Ghostscript
This PDF was produced by Abbyy Finereader 10:
http://ebooks.zeitr.org/from_abbyy.pdf
You can copy & paste the first sentence and get this (very good) text result:
Der »Bund Deutscher ...
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Which has better OCR applications: Ubuntu, or Mac/iPad, or Windows?
I might want to find some good OCR applications.I was wondering which environment has better OCR applications: Ubuntu, or Mac/iPad, or Windows?
For Ubuntu, all I know are open-source applications.
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How to add OCRed text to original pdf in gscan2pdf?
I am new to gscan2pdf 0.9.31, and just used it to OCR a scanned pdf.
After saving the pdf, the OCRed text is stored on the top left corner. However I wish each OCRed character to be added to ...
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OCR that adds generated text to the original pdf and djvu files?
My OS is Ubuntu.
I found there are some applications can OCR a pdf or djvu file, generating another text file.
But I was wondering how to add the OCRed text onto the original pdf or djvu files, to ...
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Scanning low resolution images with Omnipage OCR
I tried scanning with Omnipage OCR (version 17) a relatively lower
resolution image of a document that I took with my mobile phone.
This document was intentionally not scanned (for future training ...
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Is there Any OCR program that can handle non-Latin characters?
I'm looking for an OCR program that can work with hebrew characters. I'm open to using something on Mac or PC, but it needs to be a reliable program.
What are my options?
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How to create documents from scanned images
I have a large number of Micorsoft Word documents to create, after a disk crash and patchy backups, destroyed the originals.
We have a fair amount of the originals left, and instead of manually ...
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Find text on an image
I want to be able to find text on the following awesome image and where the text is located in it. This is not the first time I stumbled upon such a challenge and probably many people have similar ...
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Babylon can't recognize text on Firefox 4 ~ 8 & IE 9
Before I upgraded to Firefox 4 & IE 9, Babylon was succesfully recognizing text on those browsers. After the upgrade, it cannot recognize text anymore. I've played with the OCR Optimization in the ...
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Digitizing notes?
I want to digitize my note taking. I was looking into using tablets or something of that sort but I feel that it would be too much of a challenge to type instead of actually writing my notes during ...
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How can I make OCR recognize my documents' text better?
I can't get some of my docs with images to be recognized by OCR. They're not especially low-resolution — though some are distorted — but I can't get them through OCR even with Omnipage. I ...
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Application or plugin for turning screenshots into searchable text?
It's a common practice in our company that people take screenshots of any software error situation they get into, and then they paste the screenshots in mail messages and/or Word documents that get ...
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abby fine reader page layout
I have to scan and ocr an entire book using abby fine reader.
do you know how can i define a zone of interest to scan all the pages of the book? I don;t wish to scan and recognize (header, footer, ...
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Can I force Acrobat Professional to replace the OCR-ed selectable image with text?
I have a book I want to read onscreen. It is scanned at 200 dpi monochrome (I still don't know what went wrong in the scanner driver, I remember setting it to grayscale, but cannot afford the time to ...
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How to OCR PDF files with Old German Gothic (Fraktur) text?
I have been successfully using Adobe Acrobat X to OCR many scanned documents which I use for my research. However I have begun studying old German documents which use the Fraktur script, also known as ...
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Training Tesseract-OCR for english lauguage fonts
I have about 3000 small images of single words that I am trying to convert to text.
I have installed tesseract on my windows 7 machine using the installer and successfully managed to OCR images ...
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OCR batch processing images
I have about 3000 small images of text which I want to process into a comma separated list.
Is there any free program that would be capable of this?
