[macvoiceover] Re: iOCR an idea

Biggest problem with PDFs is that they usually do not have the resolution in the PDF image to be used for OCR work. Images resolution for OCR needs to be 150 DPI or better. 


Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Nov 25, 2007, at 11:05 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:


Definitely useful.
I've run into several pdf documents that were scanned documents, and it's quite the pain. Can't do a thing with them at the moment, if your ocr will work, by all means, write it. 
I'd be happy to test it.


On Nov 22, 2007, at 11:09 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:


OK folks time to try out an idea on everyone.
What I'm thinking of is a program I'm going to call iOCR. This program will take the front most document of Preview and run OCR on it and then open the resulting text in TextEdit. I'm thinking of using Googles open source OCR which I have working on a Mac. It seems to do a good job and can deal with upside down pages. 

This will likely be an Intel, Leopard only thing at first.

So useful or not?

Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
gkearney@xxxxxxxxx





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