Bill Rhodes wrote:
Thanks to all who responded to my request for help and advice. I
have spent the last day or so checking them all out.
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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.
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Bill,
I have tried several OCR programs, both free and commercial. Believe it
or not I found that FreeOCR did the best of all of them. An old
document may give errors but it will with all the OCR engines.
With FreeOCR you can select a section of the document and enlarge it
some. I have found that this sometimes helps with the accuracy. The
fact that it has an original window and an edit window also saves having
to use Transcript, another useful program.
--
Gene Y.
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