Greg, this would be an excellent idea. You are surely an innovative
individual.
On Nov 23, 2007, at 12:33 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:
That's the idea, preview has a function now to do the scanning but I
haven't looked into it yet. The idea is that what ever is the front
document gets turned into a tiff file and fed to an OCR engine.
Using the Google engine it should not matter if it is right side up
or not.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Nov 22, 2007, at 10:25 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
ydeed,
I could bypass my clumsy readiris and just scan pages in as images
and bring
them up in preview through your gwidget.
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Subject: iOCR an idea
OK folks time to try out an idea on everyone.
What I'm thinking of is a program I'm going to call iOCR. This
program
will take the front most document of Preview and run OCR on it and
then open the resulting text in TextEdit. I'm thinking of using
Googles open source OCR which I have working on a Mac. It seems to do
a good job and can deal with upside down pages.
This will likely be an Intel, Leopard only thing at first.
So useful or not?
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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