Re: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:44:12 -0700
Ghostscript's default resolution is, I believe, 72 dpi, which,
obviously, is unsuitable 4 any type of OCR.
Experimentation w/resolution should occur, as well as using
grey-scale--I have found this can sometimes produce remarkably better
results, especially w/pdf files.
Having said all that, I've experimented w/some of these free OCR tools
& have found them basically about as useful as toabh. It's too bad,
too, cuz these OCR packages r, imo, very over-priced.
On 9/13/07, Martin Slack <m.g.slack@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Peter,
>
> The application Microsoft Office Document Imaging is part of Microsoft
> Office Tools. However it is set up to handle tiff images, so to operate on
> pdf it is necessary to copy the document to the clipboard, then paste it
> into Document Imaging.
>
> Sending the document to Word then automatically runs it through an OCR
> engine, in this case not very successfully. Jamal's typed document image
> gives a Word file with one or two words per line recognisable as English.
>
> hth
>
> Martin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Torpey" <ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:18 PM
> Subject: RE: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
>
>
> > What OCR facilities are built into MS Word and where do you find this? I
> > wasn't aware MS Word had such a capability.
> >
> > -- Pete
> >
>
> ---snip---
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