The tip with HP Director is: Don't use the PREVIEW Scan a document into WORD or such, and you can play with it as much as you want, without it keep rescanning the image.
Open HP Director, click SETTINGS - SCAN SETTINGS & PREFERENCES Choose SCAN DOCUMENT SETTINGS click PREFERENCES and untick SHOW PREVIEW then OK Now when you click SCAN DOCUMENT, it allows you to choose where you want the scan to go, choose your word processor program (usually Word) I find it 99% accurate with the recognition, and it takes my PC 71 seconds from clicking SCAN DOCUMENT to having the text & graphics open in Word ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce > I was actually thinking of asking this question myself. > > Both an OCR package for "from scanner" and for "existing images". > > I just don't type fast enough when it comes to "copy" typing, so I'd prefer > to be able to scan. And I like having the citations in a quick text format > for reading. > > I currently have HP Scanner software, but it is a pain to use the OCR stuff > as it resets back to image scan after each scan. It also is only usable > from the scanner bed verses say a jpeg image. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: HSP > > > This may be off topic but as a Legacy user and list member, I thought I > > would try this very active and mostly helpful list first-- > > Does anyone have a suggestion for a good Optical Character Recognition > > Program? I find that with all the new images available online now, I have > > many many images of pages from genealogy books. Most from genealogy.com > > online library. > > These could be handled more easily if they could be converted into text. I > > realize I have to check carefully for errors after using one, but I know > > there must be some good OCR programs out there. They wouldn't necessarily > > have to be free. > > Helen --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.487 / Virus Database: 286 - Release Date: 01/06/03 Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
