Thanks to all who responded to my request for help and advice. I have
spent the last day or so checking them all out.
To Ward & Carl - no, OCR is not included in my Scanner which is an
Epson Perfection 4490. To JLB, the docs I want to copy are way to long to
do a split screen and type. That is what I am trying to avoid. And to
Dennis, I have scanned as jpg. and saved to file but cannot do a c&p - not
possible, and I do not want to insert an image into Legacy.To John R., I
checked out IrisPro v.10 and it looks very good, but as you say it is
"spendy" - way too much for my budget. To Grover O. & Gene Y. - I downloaded
the Free OCR and it is easy to use and it works. The only drawback is that
(at least with old copies of old docs) it comes up with some strange words &
symbols which require a lot of correcting and cleaning up, but I may be able
to live with it. To Dennis K. the Abbyyusa frexpress at $50 for the download
version looks good. My question is, will it or any of the other for sale
OCR's do a better job than the FreeOCR, or do they all work the same and
produce innaccurate copies that have to be "cleaned up"? If Abbyy frexpress
produces fairly clean & accurate copies it might be worth the $50. I would
be interested in hearing your comments or suggestions.
Thanks again for eveyone's help - really great!!
Bill Rhodes
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Bill Rhodes <wlrho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have somehow lost my original email and the replies to it, but I was told
> by someone that to get scanned docs into Legacy I need Optical Reader
> software (which makes sense) and that I could find free ones for download.
> After a lot of searching on Google I was never able to find completely free
> software - "free" usually becomes "free trial period" or "donation
> required", etc. I finally ordered "SIMPLE OCR" - the free version with an
> obligatory $25 donation. After downloading & installing - it does not work!
> I called them and they do *not* support the free version. After some
> discussion they agreed to refund the $25. So I am back to square one. I
> really do not want to re-type all these records if there is a better way. I
> would welcome and all any further ideas or suggestions. How do the rest of
> you folks do it?
>
> Bill Rhodes
>
