I use a product Abbyy FineReader 7. Not sure I would want to OCR 1000s of pages as in the way I use it each page is human checked. There may be options to run it in auto. It also keeps all the formatting and logos so the document looks like the original. In the few hundred dollar range.
Regards Peter MacIsaac MacIsaac Informatics www.macisaacinformatics.org Consulting in Health Informatics, Terminology & Data management and Health Policy. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0411403462 (mobile) 61611327 (office) peter_macisaac (skype) 8 Ewart St. Yarralumla 2600 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 19 August 2006 10:29 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Scanning to pdfs I would also like to know what people are doing in this quarter. We are looking at some research projects where we might be OCRing 100,000 pages (already scanned), so any simple efficienies will be worhtwhile. thanks jon patrick Quoting Ian Cheong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I would like to know if anybody is scanning to OCR'd pdfs, or knows > anyone in GP land who is doing so. > > I'd prefer to do this to scanning only images or only OCR, because > the content is then text searchable with background image retained > for "medicolegal" puposes. > > There seem to be several commercial products ranging from 100s to > 1000s of dollars that will do this - interested to know what products > work well. > > > Ian. > > -- > Dr Ian R Cheong, BMedSc, FRACGP, GradDipCompSc, MBA(Exec) > Health Informatics Consultant, Brisbane, Australia > Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (for urgent matters, please send a copy to my practice email as well: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > PRIVACY NOTE > I am happy for others to forward on email sent by me to public email > lists. > Please ask my permission first if you wish to forward private email > to other parties. > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.3/423 - Release Date: 18/08/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.3/423 - Release Date: 18/08/2006 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
