It's difficult to tell from your message whether that's doable or not. Generally, what is possible is to transform those records into an electronic format that is keyword-searchable. Anything more complex is a significant effort using any OCR system.
Tom On Aug 17, 8:31 pm, helmingstay <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a graduate student in the University of New Mexico Biology > department. We're trying to import a number of historical public > health disease records into a database. The scans are wonderful but > the original printing isn't great, and the formatting is strange and > variable. > > We use ubuntu here, mostly jaunty. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ocropus" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ocropus?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
