Lee, You really have me wondering. On EVERY scan there wasn't a single word missed, and when I would do a search on even the smallest of print in the front of the magazine it would find the word every time. When I would choose a person or company in Spotlight it would find them, often there would be six or seven of the now 16 I have now scanned that would have info. on the question I had ask.
Is there something more I should be looking for? My needs with prospectuses, annual reports, Edgar 10k & 2k's. I will have Barrons (once they release a PDF ver., can't scan in that large a paper), Investor's Business Daily, Forbes, Fortune and a few others. Text will be my main data but the filings with the SEC will have numbers and tables. What am I missing, what do I need that Acrobat may not be giving? John On Jan 1, 2013, at 10:35 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jan 1, 2013, at 10:09 PM, John Robinson wrote: > >> Just in case someone has a need similar to mine I can certainly recommend >> this setup. > > I had a very large scanning/OCR project over the last couple of years—putting > 20 years of back issues of a mathematics journal online with searchable PDFs. > I tried many different scanning+OCR combinations including Acrobat Pro, PDF > Pen Pro, ABBYY Finereader, OCRopus and Readiris Pro. > > Of the Mac software, we found ABBYY Finereader to be the most accurate while > Readiris was the most trainable. > > We finally ended up doing most of it with ABBYY Finereader under Windows > because it was hands down the winner for accuracy, speed and trainability. > (The Mac version uses the same recognition engine, but it isn't trainable.) > > For my personal use on a Mac, I settled on Readiris Pro because I could train > it to either properly interpret or ignore many mathematical symbols. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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