On Wednesday 02 November 2005 03:28 pm, botteman wrote:
> I bought a huge (several hundred page) printed
> reference book that I need to scan and store in
> digital form, which I can then search for numbers,
> words, phrases, etc..
>
> I've already tried a couple of OCR programs, but
> have had much trouble with the scan results. The
> big problem is that each page of the book contains
> many different fonts and font sizes, headers, footers,
> etc., and the programs I've tried just can't properly
> recognize all the varying text.
>
> Anybody have first-hand experience with a program
> (windoz or otherwise) which might be able to work
> in this situation? The resulting file I want to generate
> doesn't have to have all the fonts/sizes of the original.
>
> What's your best recommendation?
>
> Dave
>
Omni Page which which is a MS program did at one time do what you are refering
to.
SCOL
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