You may want to check out http://www.watchocr.com/
Mark
----- "Andy Kelly" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm working on scanning some documents in a collection and then
> preforming
> OCR on the documents. Thus far, I've used Adobe Acrobat Pro's OCR
> function
> with some success but the machines I'm working on are fairly old
> Pentium 4
> Dell boxes, this makes opening 600 DPI scans painful and preforming
> OCR an
> entirely valid excuse for a long coffee break.
>
> As you might expect, I'm looking for a way to speed up this process at
> the
> OCR end of things, since the scanning can only move so quickly. I'm
> wondering if any of you have experience with any open OCR solutions
> such as:
> Tesseract-OCR <http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/> or
> ocropus<http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/>.
> At a glance, Tesseract seems to be further along in development. Any
> other
> suggestions on how best to approach this sort of task would be
> appreciated
> if you've done similar work.
>
> I've got my own Ubuntu Server I'm planning on evaluating one or both
> of
> these on, as much for my own interest as the project's or the
> organization's. Since I'm an unpaid part-time intern and the only one
> who's
> working on this project, I'm willing to learn to do things the hard
> way so
> they're easier in the long run.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions or advice you may be able to offer.
>
> --
> ~Andrew M. Kelly
> MLIS Degree Candidate, Simmons GSLIS 2011
> Archives & Librarianship Intern, Boston University: African
> Presidential
> Archive & Research Center
> Evening Library Assistant, Bay State College
> twitter: @a_m_kelly
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