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)
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>
> -----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
>