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If it's for a discrete project, I'd say scan what you need OCR'd and put it on Mechanical Turk kyle On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Donna Campbell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On a related note, I am looking for a recommendation for software that > provides OCR for handwriting (print and/or cursive). To clarify, this > would be pen ink on paper not digital ink. > > Thank you, > Donna R. Campbell > Technical Services & Systems Librarian > (215) 935-3872 (phone) > (267) 295-3641 (fax) > Mailing Address (via USPS): > Westminster Theological Seminary Library > P.O. Box 27009 > Philadelphia, PA 19118 USA > Shipping Address (via UPS or FedEx): > Westminster Theological Seminary Library > 2960 W. Church Rd. > Glenside, PA 19038 USA > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Eric Lease Morgan > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:57 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] web-based ocr > > Does anybody here know of a Web-based OCR program or Web service? > > Many people want to do OCR against digitized texts. We all know of various > OCR applications (Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader, Google's Tesseract, > etc.), but they are not necessarily Web-based. As a service to my > university, I thought it might be cool (or "kewl") to support an image to > text application. Go to Web form. Submit one or more image files. Have OCR > done against them no matter how dirty the output. Return plain text. As a > bonus, the application would support a REST-ful API. > > Does anybody know of something like this that exists already? > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > University of Notre Dame >