On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:01:44 -0400 James Knott <[email protected]> dijo:
> > In addition to the above there's a third issue. By far the majority of > > scanners and OCR "engines" on the market produce documents that are designed > > for MS Office. Many will even invoke MS Word or Outlook automatically once > > the OCR process is complete. Of course that's a problem if you don't have > > either of those installed - which I don't. My scanner wanted to produce a > > ".doc" file and then automatically invoke Word. I can't separate those two > > functions. In other words I can't make my scanner produce a ".doc" file and > > then *not* invoke Word. I certainly can't get it to invoke Writer. The best > > I can do with my scanner (HP 3770) is to make it scan to an RTF file and > > then not invoke anything automatically. This is OK but RTF is a lot > > feature-poorer than ".doc" so my results look a lot less like the original > > than they could and therefore I have a lot more work to do. > I assume you're running Windows. Perhaps you could create a batch file > called "word", which in turn launches Writer. That is a good suggestion. I was wondering if there was an OCR package that could be customized, or that allowed the user a choice of which text editor to invoke. Here is a web page that sells the various OCR packages: http://www.simpleocr.com/OCR_Software_Guide.asp However, they don't say much about the features of each package. More interestingly, they offer a free OCR program called SimpleOCR. I didn't try it out, and I can't even find information about which operating systems it requires. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
