I use Omnipage. Excellent program and accuracy is quite high in the newest version. It will take a lot of work though. You can spend 5 to 10 minutes per page blocking out text sections to be converted and picture sections to be ignored.
If you tear the book apart, you can use a scanner with an automatic document feeder to speed up reading pages. Scan everything first and store one or more pages in files then go back to OCR it at your leisure. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rafael Copquin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:52 PM Subject: [NF] image processing >I have a client with a huge manufacturing procedures manual that needs > to be copied into Word documents. > > I thought that each page could be scanned and then processed with a > special software, because some data in the manual has to be updated and > some paragraphs have to be reworded, or taken out or whatever. > > IOW, the problem is: > > scan the pages > using a special software, modify the pages as needed > save them again, either as scanned images or ideally, as Word documents. > > Is there any software that can accomplish this, free if possible? > > TIA > > Rafael Copquin > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/42700451e19e45d1904cee2ec7184...@dual ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
