A while ago I subscribed to Adobe OCR services supposed to convert pdf into word files and I was quite disappointed because of the amount of manual work that had to be performed afterwards on the "recognized files". Useless to say that I did not renew the subsription.
-- Jacques CABESSA Tel : +33 (0)3 88 35 68 46 Le 01/12/2014 01:06, Warren Lewington a écrit :
I’ve been using the OCR functions in Adobe Acrobat Professional and it isn’t half bad. Certainly it is not foolproof and it works better with well copied/high resolution photocopies than it does with poor quality stuff but it does work.As an interim I would be more than happy to use it.*From:*austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Kath Bowman*Sent:* Monday, December 01, 2014 10:02 AM *To:* austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Subject:* atw: Re: 2015 OCR state of the artOur Canon printers do a good job OCRing hard copy and generating an OCR’ed PDF . For soft copy, I use Adobe Acrobat, and it does a good job. In OCR capability, it has got a lot smarter over the years.regards *Kath Bowman* Technical Writer kath.bowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:kath.bowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Jacques wrote: Hi all,Recently we switched a part of our computers from Win XP to Windows 7. Up to now, we used Omnipage 15 as the OCR. When I wanted to install Omnipage 15 licences on the new computers, I discovered that this release was not compatible with Omnipage 15 which does not support Win 7. Since the Omnipage guys do not leave us the choice but to dump our OCR investment, it may be time for a review of the market.As translators, our main tool is Word and we need an OCR to automotize conversion from graphic files into text files with a look alike formatting. When using Omnipage 15, it implied a good deal of formatting work to get rid of its silly methods of using word (one section for each page, tabs between unrelated items instead of tables or multicolumns sections, text analysed as graphics, brutal change of typeface…). In the last ten years, I guess OCR software has improved and some if not all those drawbacks may have been corrected.I checked that this subject has not been discussed on this list since 2005. Hence my question : what OCR software is currently leading the market.
