Bill Rhodes wrote:
Many thanks to all who responded to my second request. Lots of great
suggestions! For the time being I think I will stick with FreeOCR
recommended by GeneY which seems to work fine for my use. One question,
Gene - is a tutorial available somewhere for FreeOCR? I'm figuring out a
few things by trial and error but a users manual or tutorial would
probably make it easier.
The ownership of this program has changed recently and V 3.00 is
supposed to be out soon. All the online documentation from the original
creators is gone. I did find this, below, at the new owners site. I
guess we have to wait for help.
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After downloading Free OCR double click to install. The software is very
simple to use.
Start by clicking the open button and try some of the included sample
scans, these samples are part of the ISRI OCR Performance Toolkit which
can be found here: http://www.isri.unlv.edu/ISRI/OCRtk
Please note that the Tesseract OCR engine requires images at a
resolution of 200 dpi or greater and as such it is not suited for
reading PC screen shots which are only about 72dpi although we have made
some enhancements in V2.3 which will produce better accurarcy from low
quality image sources.
Manual zoning, this allows you to select an area to process. This helps
to increase the accuracy by eliminating borders, pictures ect. Also this
makes the software useable to OCR documents which contain columns.
To select an area just draw a box on the image with the mouse using the
left button.
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