The Adobe ocr did not seem to be as accurate as ABBYY, but the auto clean
up is great for messy scans.

The auto correction in the high end document acquisition systems is much
better, but a lot depends on document types.

Adobe do have an sdk, and I think they might also have a server based
system for high volume work flow environments, but I am not 100% sure.

Simon
On Nov 4, 2011 2:55 PM, "Parker, Anson (adp6j)" <
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> Definitely worth checking out
> http://docmorph1.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/mymorph.htm as it's free and
> government sponsored (another way of saying you've already paid for it
> once... :)  also am a fan of adobe acrobat's ocr and optimizer.
> ap
>
>
>
> On 11/4/11 2:25 PM, "Simon Spero" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >ABBYY's engine is pretty good; though depending on whether you've already
> >scanned the text you might end up with higher thruput by having the OCR
> >performed at each scanning station.
> >
> >I'm not sure if the non-server software is multi-core/multi-processor
> >aware; the version that is used in the drivers for the scansnap S1500 is a
> >rev down from current.
> >
> >Depending on your budget you might also want to take a look at KoFax;
> >some
> >high end bulk scanners come with low end versions of kofax, but it can be
> >very nice, especially if you are acquiring documents that have stereotyped
> >layouts, since it can be trained to pick out metadata, and to distinguish
> >between document types.
> >
> >Simon
> >
> >Also, fujitsu document scanners ftw.
> >On Nov 4, 2011 11:38 AM, "Michael Della Bitta"
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hello, everyone,
> >>
> >> NYPL is currently investigating OCR solutions and I was wondering if
> >> anybody had any opinions. Currently toward the top of the pile are
> >> Tesseract and ABYY Recognition Server, each for different reasons, so
> >> I'd appreciate hearing about anybody's experiences with those two, but
> >> any information you might be able to provide would be most helpful.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Michael Della Bitta
> >>
> >> Senior Applications Developer
> >> Information Technology Group
> >> The New York Public Library
> >> 40 West 20th Street, 5th Floor
> >> New York, NY 10011-4211
> >> (212) 621-0609
> >>
>