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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Is there a utility to do OCR on images on the windows clipboard?
Sometimes, I find myself typing out a lot of text from a screen capture. Its quite tedious.
Is there an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program out there that would allow me to quickly convert ...
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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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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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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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OCR library for reading fixed design documents
Is there any OCR-library/cliapp that lets me do something like this:
# ./ocrapp -input file.pdf -posx 3.6cm -posy 7.8cm -width 10cm -height 1.5cm -output rawdata.txt
I'm trying to automate reading ...
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Windows Search OCR plugin/extension
Is there any plugin or solution available to let Windows Search index text in graphic pages embedded into pdf files.
Something like the amazing Omnipage OCR plugin which was available for Google ...
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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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Simple, free OCR software (for OS X)? [closed]
Something I've had an occasional need for, but I've never found an application I liked - OCR
Basically I want to take a photo/scan of a document, and convert it to a text document of some kind ...
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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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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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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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How to extract text with OCR from a PDF on Linux?
How do I extract text from a PDF that wasn't built with an index? It's all text, but I can't search or select anything. I'm running Kubuntu, and Okular doesn't have this feature.
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How can I extract text (text only) from a PDF of sheet music?
I have a PDF book of sheet music that I need to extract the text from. I don't need to extract the musical notes or anything, just the verses of the text.
I can't select one line of text by itself – ...
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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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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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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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Free OCR for Arabic text
A friend has requested I convert an Arabic text .pdf into Word. Google Docs does not seem an option but new OCR looked promising because Arabic is featured in the 'Recognition language' dropdown. I ...
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Looking for software to rename file name of jpeg scan image of doc to text in the image
I'm scanning in many A4 paper documents to JPEG using a automated document feeder scanner.
The results are FILE0001.JPG FILE0002.JPG etc.
I would like a program to rename the file name title to text ...
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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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How to do OCR with a Savin 9228 printer?
At work we have a Savin 9228 printer that I read on the website can do OCR. But I looked in the manual and I can't find any mention of OCR. Does the printer actually do OCR or does the printer scan ...
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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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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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What OCR application can process technical data such as equations? [closed]
What optical character recognition application (on any platform) can read complex text such as equations? I have to scan several long documents that have many large equations in them at work. ...
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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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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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Translating Documents from a Foreign Language into English on my Computer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Translation software recommendation for offline use?
I am aware that websites can be translated from many languages into English thanks to Google Translate. If I receive ...
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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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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Algorithm [closed]
I was wondering anyone would be aware of an OCR algorithm that I could use to develop an application for Windows Phone that doesn't call on services from the cloud (eg. Microsoft's Project Hawaii).
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Form recognition using OCR and return image of the value
I'm on a project that processes hundreds of forms. The forms have consistent formats but are filled out by hand by different people. I need a way to quickly process all of this data into electronic ...
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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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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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Can Acrobat 11 be made to do OCR using multiple CPU cores?
OCR processing takes time. Using multiple CPU cores would speed up processing. Acrobat 10 was not a multithreaded application. How about Acrobat 11? Does 11 by default do OCR using multiple CPU cores ...
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When running Adobe Acrobat's OCR on a PDF document, which downsampling produces a higher quality: 600 dpi or 72 dpi?
I have a large PDF document that consists of scanned pages of a textbook. I want to run Adobe Acrobat 9's text recognition function on it, but I'm presented with this menu when I do.
I'm confused ...
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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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How can I search multiple PDF files that have OCR?
I have thousands upon thousands of PDF files that have OCR. It's great when you have one open but I want to be able to find PDF files in a folder that contain X. Adobe seems to have something build in ...
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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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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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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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OCR software for a HP PSC 1410 printer [closed]
I have a HP PSC 1410 printer attached to a Windows 7 operating system.
I need to scann documents but with a OCR software, to get text not images.
Could you advice me what OCR software do I need to ...
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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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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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Extract OCR text from Evernote
Evernote does OCR on the images you save to it. Is there a way to get the full text equivalent for an image in Evernote, or is the OCR only for searching?
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How can I identify fonts from an image?
Many times I come across bitmaps with nothing but text paragraphs, so I was looking for a way to identify the font used, the paragraph alignment, line spacing and color, bold, italics.
Would an OCR ...
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OCR solution on linux machine from command line [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Cheap , command-line OCR solution for linux
I need an OCR solution to run as a backend of a website on a linux machine. I read the other related questions here, so I ...
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Practical OCR solution for converting a large book to a digital format?
I was over by my grandparent's place this past weekend. My grandmother pulled out this giant (~1400 page) book of her family history going back to 1630 or so. Giant nerd that I am, I thought it would ...
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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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OCR in Word 2013
Word 2013 can naively open and edit PDF documents (big plus in my opinion). Is there a way to get it do some OCR as well?
On a PDF that that had mostly pictures, even the parts that were pure text ...
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Online OCR website for processing an entire pdf file at one time? [closed]
I am looking for an online OCR website for processing a multi-page pdf file at one time. Free preferably.
I know http://www.newocr.com/. If I am correct, it can only OCR one page at a time, by ...
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Import table from a image to a spreadsheet
How can I import a table from a scanned image (jpg/pdf) file to a spreadsheet?
Example scan is here
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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 ...
