Re: OCR Software?

2009-11-18 Thread Gus
ditto on the omni page pro for X. you can get those for cheap on the swap list. On Nov 16, 1:35 pm, Ross olfec...@digizip.com wrote: On Nov 16, 9:45 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a free or very inexpensive decent OCR software package, that can pull text out of jpg

OCR Software?

2009-11-16 Thread Dan
Can anyone recommend a free or very inexpensive decent OCR software package, that can pull text out of jpg files? Pref that runs on Tiger. My housemate is digging thru scanned type-written census records. I'm thinking it might help to be able to pluck a few pages with particular keywords

Re: OCR Software?

2009-11-16 Thread Bill Connelly
On Nov 16, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Dan wrote: Can anyone recommend a free or very inexpensive decent OCR software package, that can pull text out of jpg files? Pref that runs on Tiger. My housemate is digging thru scanned type-written census records. I'm thinking it might help to be able

Re: OCR Software?

2009-11-16 Thread Fabian Fang
On Nov 16, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Dan wrote: Can anyone recommend a free or very inexpensive decent OCR software package, that can pull text out of jpg files? Pref that runs on Tiger. My housemate is digging thru scanned type-written census records. I'm thinking it might help to be able

Re: OCR Software?

2009-11-16 Thread Ross
On Nov 16, 9:45 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a free or very inexpensive decent OCR software package, that can pull text out of jpg files?   Pref that runs on Tiger. Microsoft Office Document Imaging can do it, so can Vuescan. Convert the files to TIFF format