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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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]
Possible Duplicate:
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]
Possible Duplicate:
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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Tutorial or How-To's for ABBYY? Specifically, on the 'Style Editor'
I'm using ABBYY 10 (with a license from my school), and it seems like there are features I'm not utilizing. Specifically, I want to know all I can do with styles.
For example how to get ABBYY 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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Copy-paste OCR software in Windows? [closed]
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Good free OCR with GUI for correcting mistakes? (for Windows)
Is there a software on Windows in which I can copy-paste an image into the application and have it ...
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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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Can PaperPort be used to convert a non OCR PDF to OCR PDF?
My scanner came with the following software:
ScanSoft PageViewer
ScanSoft PaperPort
ScanDirect
I believe it also comes with a basic version of OmniPage
I'm not sure which of these programs is the ...
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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?
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Freeware OCR software for Windows OS? [closed]
Possible Duplicates:
Free OCR software
Good free OCR with GUI for correcting mistakes? (for Windows)
Some time instead PSD files I get .jpg files from client , where text is not editable. ...
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Mapping data from OCR'd Document to Form Fields
Is there any way to automatically take the data from a particular place in a document and have it insert into a particular field in a form?
All of the documents follow one of two standard formats: ...
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I have scanned a bunch of receipts and I want to scan/OCR their data into an excel file. How would I do this?
All the receipts have the same layout (i.e. their order list, transaction dates). I was wondering if my OCR program (Omnipage 17) could go to a certain co-ordinate and recognize the data, then some ...
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Does anyone know of a good free OCR program for MAC OSX? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Simple, free OCR software (for OS X)?
Does anyone know of a good free OCR program for MAC OSX?
