RE: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
- From: "Macarty, Jay {PBSG}" <Jay.Macarty@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:49:47 -0500
The printkey utility captures the screen (or a specific window) into a
Microsoft Document Imaging (.mdi) file. You can then use your default
OCR software to render the mdi file into text. My default is currently
the OCR from Office Tools which does okay but usually leaves something
to be desired.
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eileen
Lafond
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 4:39 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
Where do you get print screen?
Eileen La Fond
Phone (206) 386-0011
e.mail Eileen.LaFond@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>> "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 9/14/2007 2:29 PM >>>
I understand, print screen is a small utility that Jay Macarty , put out
as
a interim solution for folks that had to deal with screen images sent to
them by clients, to OCR them, so I thought in the spirit of seeing how
this
free OCR module that your using did compared to other scanners that are
free
also I would run it through it.
and yes, the setup I am talking about is for OCRing a completely graphic
image and attempting to render it into a text version.
I wasn't trying to be offensive Jamal, but testing your program against
some
others isn't a bad idea, to give you an idea of how well it, and this
freebee OCR module does compared to other things out here, that are
free, or
included in suite's that a lot of us have?
inthane
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 5:29 AM
Subject: Re: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
> FYI -- the 1.0 release version is considerably better than the beta
> version due to performing OCR on a page-by-page basis and to the
> convenience of converting any number of PDFs in a directory with a
> single command. PDF2OCR does work on text-based as well as
image-based
> PDFs, but the results on text-based ones are generally not as good as
> with other utilities that extract the text directly rather than
> analyzing the picture of each page.
>
> Jamal
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, inthaneelf wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:52:12 -0700
>> From: inthaneelf <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
>>
>> and print screen, lets see how this freebee works out, smile
>>
>> and Jamal, I appreciate what your working on, just want to make sure
your
>> getting at least 60% of what your hoping for out of it.
>>
>> inthane
>> . For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and
>> Links
>> to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me
at:
>> http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
>> . to be able to view a simple programming project in several
programming
>> languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at:
>> http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:47 AM
>> Subject: RE: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
>>
>>
>> > If someone wants to submit a sample, I can run it through the PDF
tools
>> > that
>> > come with OmniPage 15. Also, someone else should run the sample
>> > through
>> > the
>> > image printer and OCR built into MS Word.
>> >
>> >
>> > Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
>> > Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
>> > Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-
>> >> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
>> >> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:42 AM
>> >> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> Subject: Re: Introducing PDF2OCR and seeking testers
>> >>
>> >> I would expect better results from Kurzweil 1000, which uses
arguably
>> >> the highest grade commercial OCR technology. The free Adobe
Reader
>> >> does
>> >> not do OCR, so would not make the sample file accessible.
>> >>
>> >> Jamal
>> >
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