Yes, there are many, but few work well within PB. The VisImage product I mentioned
previously was developed as a result of Accusoft's inability to work well with PB.
"Griffith, Daniel M." wrote:
> Yes. There is a whole industry of companies and software to do this kind
> of thing. Visit http://www.kofax.com <http://www.kofax.com/> to find
> information on a good product that reads forms and can output a
> comma-delimited file. Visit http://www.caer <http://www.caere.com> e.com to
> find OCR software that will convert a scanned image into text. There are
> many other good products out there, but these are two I've worked with. If
> you want to manipulate the image, such as letting the user add annotations
> and such, visit http://www.accusoft.com <http://www.accusoft.com> and get
> information on "ART" (Accusoft Redlining Toolkit). Note--I don't know if
> any of these companies currently have "direct" interfaces to PB. When I
> worked with them last, Kofax and Caere were primarily file-based, and
> Accusoft we had to write a DLL to interface with PB.
> An alternative might be to just store the image as a blob, in which case
> the Wang tools may be sufficient. In this case, however, you'd need a "data
> entry" (sometimes called "coding") program/window where the user can view
> the image and enter the data from the scanned image manually. The software
> I referred to above can do some of that work automatically; in any case, you
> will probably need a "review" program/window to allow the user to make
> corrections to any misscans.
> --dang
>
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>
> hi,
>
> i am developing an application which needs to store scanned data. Data is on
> a page in a formatted fashion. Suppose, i scan the paper using a scanner -
> Is there any tool to convert it into valid inputs to be stored in a table?
>
> thanks.
>
> prashanth ballal
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