Re: [MCN-L] OCR Software

2015-11-19 Thread Jim Salmons
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Re: [MCN-L] OCR Software

2015-11-19 Thread Mia
Abbyy (http://www.abbyy.com/) seems to be the market leader for OCR. I'm sure others will have examples of training OCR packages on their material and building OCR into their digitisation workflow. Platforms like the Internet Archive also produce OCR texts from uploaded files, and other tools are

[MCN-L] OCR Software

2015-11-18 Thread Locker, Mark
Hi, We are beginning a massive digitization project in which we will be scanning thousands of documents. Most will probably be typewritten but definitely will have handwritten documents as well. Anyone out there using OCR software, especially anything that manages handwriting successfully?

[MCN-L] OCR Software

2010-10-18 Thread Richard Urban
On behalf of Kate Blanch From: Kate Blanch kblanch at thewalters.org Date: October 18, 2010 9:05:21 AM CDT To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: RE: OCR Software Hi all, I?m seeking recommendations for OCR software that colleagues have had had good luck with. We are seeking to use OCR

[MCN-L] OCR Software

2010-10-18 Thread Tanner, Simon
Hi Kate, I would recommend you have a look at this freely available report from our website: Deciding whether Optical Character Recognition is feasible (PDF document) Document created for the Oxford University Digital Library to introduce character recognition techniques. The document