Are there any non-shitty OCRs on the market today?

Rev_Night

Welches

Veteran XV

• Apr 27, 2012

• #1

I have some PDF and Word file (images) that i need to pull text from, but OCRs on the market suck. The text output is all garbled, its in wierd ASCII characters, and worst of all, takes more time to edit then me just typing it myself.

what optical character recognition do you people use?

 

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Whoop

Veteran XX

• Apr 27, 2012

• #2

your eyeballs

 

Fool

Whiny Bitch

• Apr 27, 2012

• #3

I use a 62 year old woman who types 125 wpm

 

lemon

8====D

Veteran XV

• Apr 27, 2012

• #4

just pay someone to do it

plenty of help in ugly city

edit: fook u fool

 

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ElectroWaffle

Veteran XX

• Apr 27, 2012

• #5

Whoop said:

your eyeballs

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Adobe Acrobat Pro


When I have 500 pages of specifications and I only want to find certain bits of it that are hidden through out, being able to search keywords is a great life saver.

 

lemon

8====D

Veteran XV

• Apr 27, 2012

• #6

I think you quoted the wrong post.

 

Data

Contributor

Veteran XX

• Apr 27, 2012

• #7

Informa Software - Business Process Automation Software & Business Process Management Solutions

Even the best OCR will struggle with handwriting, but this product is pretty good.

Have fun buying it though. I think a single scan station license is 10 grand.

 

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jonb

Veteran XX

• Apr 27, 2012

• #8

If you have Microsoft Office, OneNote has built-in OCR. Worth a try if you have it installed.

OCR anything with OneNote 2007 and 2010 - How-To Geek

ElectroWaffle said:

Adobe Acrobat Pro


When I have 500 pages of specifications and I only want to find certain bits of it that are hidden through out, being able to search keywords is a great life saver.

Click to expand...

I did not know, +rep

 

Rev_Night

Welches

Veteran XV

• Apr 27, 2012

• #9

FUCK. im not allowed to dl stuff anymore

 

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epidemic

Veteran XX

• Apr 27, 2012

• #10

u better get that shit tonight. what else do we need before the great firewall of america is erected

 

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brick

• Apr 27, 2012

• #11

can't dl stuff anymore? what an ugly regulation

 

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Dumpy Dooby

Veteran X

• Apr 27, 2012

• #12

There are sites that will let you pay foreigners to do menial tasks like this. Just find one of those.