I would check around for Tesseract language file built for micr. You can also lock Tessearct into numbers only. Between the two I would guess it would work pretty well.
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Sid Gudes <s...@piasystems.com> wrote: > The Winsoft OCR at http://www.winsoft.sk/ocr.htm is a combination of > Tesseract and Leptonica. It didn't work well at all. I think the problem > is how to tell the OCR engine that it is reading the E13B MICR font, so it > does not try to interpret the text as letters or punctuation, only as MICR > digits and separators. There doesn't seem to be a way to do that with > Tesseract. > > > > At 07:50 AM 4/24/2013, Cameron Cole wrote: > >> You can also try Tesseract OCR. When we tested it, it worked really well. >> You will have to import the DLLs and probably work with it a bit but it is >> open source and solid. >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Sid Gudes <s...@piasystems.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi Cameron, >> > >> > I went to ImageEn and downloaded their OCR demos, but they blew up on >> > access violations. Didn't give me warm fuzzies... >> > >> > I looked at OmniPage, which has tremendous specifications and should do >> > all we need (including built-in OCR support for MICR fonts), but a >> license >> > for their SDK is $4,800. Although I'm not necessarily looking for open >> > source, this is way above my budget! :-) >> > >> > >> > >> > At 10:23 AM 4/22/2013, Cameron Cole wrote: >> > >> >> There is a Delphi component called ImageEn that does image manipulation >> >> and >> >> has an OCR component call IEVision. We use ImageEn for image >> manipulation >> >> which works very well. Never used their OCR component though. For OCR >> we >> >> use Omnipage via their C++ interface. Works very well. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Sid Gudes <s...@piasystems.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Hi All, >> >> > >> >> > I've got an application (Delphi XE2) that I'd like to improve. >> >> > >> >> > We receive sheets of scanned checks. Using an external graphics >> >> program, >> >> > we rotate and crop the checks, then copy and paste each one into a >> >> Delphi >> >> > tImage. The MICR numbers at the bottom of the check are then >> manually >> >> > typed into field, and everything is saved to a database. >> >> > >> >> > What I'd like to be able to do is have the JPG sheets automatically >> >> split >> >> > (there are usually 3 checks to a page), rotated, cropped, and have >> OCR >> >> read >> >> > the MICR at the bottom of the checks. This will save a considerable >> >> amount >> >> > of labor. >> >> > >> >> > Does anyone have experience with a graphics component that will do >> these >> >> > tasks? Thanks! >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > ______________________________******____________________ >> >> >> >> >> > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org >> >> > http://lists.elists.org/cgi-******bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-** >> ****talk<http://lists.elists.org/cgi-****bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-****talk> >> <http://lists.elists.**org/cgi-**bin/mailman/**listinfo/delphi-**talk<http://lists.elists.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-**talk> >> > >> >> <http://lists.elists.org/****cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/****delphi-talk<http://lists.elists.org/**cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**delphi-talk> >> <http://lists.**elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/**listinfo/delphi-talk<http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > >> >> ______________________________****____________________ >> >> Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org >> >> http://lists.elists.org/cgi-****bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-****talk<http://lists.elists.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-**talk> >> <http://lists.elists.org/**cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**delphi-talk<http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk> >> > >> >> >> > >> > ______________________________****____________________ >> > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org >> > http://lists.elists.org/cgi-****bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-****talk<http://lists.elists.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-**talk> >> <http://lists.elists.org/**cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**delphi-talk<http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk> >> > >> > >> ______________________________**____________________ >> Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org >> http://lists.elists.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-**talk<http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk> >> > > ______________________________**____________________ > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org > http://lists.elists.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-**talk<http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk> > __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
