I also think $100 is cheap, if the scan is good. Last Monday Abbyy Reader’s $99 special ended. I think they are pretty good at OCR.
If you don’t like Fedex’s OCR, but you have the scanned images, I’d stuff them into my Tesseract OCR for a second opinion. I’ve had been trying to OCR some truly dreadful images of WPA typewritten reports on onionskin paper for the NM Library as a volunteer. Dan > On Dec 2, 2017, at 8:10 AM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > $100 sounds like a good price, but I would suggest a ten page test run. > TJ > >> On Dec 1, 2017 8:22 PM, "Nick Thompson" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear Friammers, >> >> >> >> I have a 400 page type script, double sided that I would like to scan, and >> then edit. Fedex will scan it for a bit over 100 dollars. They will put it >> into a word file for free, after that. No guarantees. Does anybody know >> of a better deal in Santa Fe, or if we mailed the type script off anywhere? >> The quality of the OCR software is my most urgent concern. Are there some >> REALLY GOOD ONES? Would it be cheaper for me to buy the software myself? >> >> >> >> Lemme know, >> >> >> >> Nick >> >> >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology >> >> Clark University >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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