Optical character recognition (OCR) is the process of converting images of text to text that can be manipulated by word processors etc.
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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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OCR Image recognition plugin for firefox and chrome?
Sometimes i 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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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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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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Cleaning text in PDFs using OCR… or “There should definitely be a way to do this”
I get a lot of PDFs from other people consisting of scanned old documents. Unfortunately, sometimes the text on the scans, though legible, looks grainy and is hard to read.
What I've been able to do ...
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Batch convert pdf's t searchable pdf's
I'm looking for a way to convert thousands of pdf's to searchable pdf's. I've used a program called "PDF Create Assistant" that came with Nuance's ecopy software. However, you can't select a folder, ...
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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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Tesseract OCR - Newbie Questions!
I just installed Tesseract OCR and was able to convert a TIF image to its corresponding text. The application seems fairly easy to use, but I am struggling finding the documentation that will help me ...
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OCR Tesseract, Empty page error?
I compiled it from sources with leptonica.
This is a png image with transparent background, which I edited adding a blue color and still this error:
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.02.02 with ...
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Identification software for Mathematical symbols?
Typically if you've forgotten or have never seen a symbol in a math equation before you are forced to read a large part of the context you found it in and guess which name that symbol has. That is too ...
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gImageReader Clipboard doesn't work on Windows
I'm using gImageReader to do some OCR on Windows 7, and though I can copy from within the application itself, I can't copy to the external Windows 7 clipboard. I believe the program is gtk based, and ...
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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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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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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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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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OCR for Sanskrit ( OR devanagari)
I need an OCR s/w for Sanskrit OR devanagari.
I need a s/w which can convers character into UNICODE.
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Training Tesseract-OCR for english language 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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Tesseract can't scan `Error:Only 1,2,4,5,6,8 bpp are supported:32`
Even though I did convert canvas.png -depth 8 canvas.tif I am still seeing this error message:
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine
check_legal_image_size:Error:Only 1,2,4,5,6,8 bpp are supported:32
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Batch-OCR screenshots and save their content in metadata?
For quite some time, I've been looking for a way to make screenshots searchable on my mac. Is there a way to batch-OCR them and then save the text with the image or index them in some way, so ...
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How can I port a text layer from one PDF to another? (in windows)
I have a few files in .djvu format, which size is small, but unfortunately mi e-reader can't display it. I use DjvuToy to transform it to PDF and it keeps the small size; but then, when I use Abby ...
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How can I preform OCR from the command line?
I need to perform OCR on the a backend of a website on a Linux machine with printed text.
I read the other related questions here, so I tried tesseract, wich is considered as one of the most accurate ...
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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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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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Long term archiving of scanned documents
I am trying to turn my office paperless, as far is permitted by the law.
Premises:
PDF/A-3 is the best format for scanned documents.
Tesseract OCR is the best free OCR engine.
A document could be ...
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How do I prevent OmniPage from inserting random bits of text into the wrong place?
I'm processing documents in OmniPage 17, but I keep running into the same bug: bits text that get flagged as an issue gets inserted into later parts of the document.
Here is an example (bold text is ...
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Open Source OCR for linux
Is there any opensource OCR available for linux,that i can directly use ?.
I really like tesseract but i can't seem to find it's implementation which i can directly use using terminal or using a GUI ...
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Are there any program for showing tooltip via OCR
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At work we have an old developed program where I need to navigate on a very long dropdown list only with numbered codes.
To select the correct code, I ...
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Tesseract OCR recognition bilingual document. mistakes tolerance level setup
How to recognize a bilingual document with tesseract i.e. Russian-English? In tesseract/tessdata have both files eng.traineddata and rus.traineddata. May be it possible to combine them in some way? ...
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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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