Ander,

Thank you for multiple suggestions. I will look into these.

Erica

*Erica Findley (she/her)*
*Systems & Metadata Librarian*
*x80591*
Multnomah County Library
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On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 7:35 AM ander kierig <
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> Erica:
>
> I've used Paperwork (https://openpaper.work/en/) in the past with good
> results. It's open source and runs on Linux and Windows. If you'd be
> interested in running a web application you might give some of these
> options a look (https://github.com/kba/awesome-ocr#ocr-gui) or maybe
> even look into a document management web application
> (
> https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#document-management)
>
> though the later might be overkill for your use case.
>
> Finally, if you're running a Mac somewhere and have money to spend, I
> cannot overstate how much I love DevonThink
> (https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink) which has a server
> version and uses ABBYY on the backend. My quick test this morning
> suggests it doesn't have the issue you're describing.
>
> best,
>
> ak
>
> --
> ander kierig
> Web Application Developer
> University of Minnesota Libraries
> [lib.umn.edu](https://www.lib.umn.edu)
> they/them
>
> On 2022-08-05 at 18:12 (-0500) Erica FINDLEY wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > ABBYY has been a favorite program of mine for transforming batches of
> > TIFF
> > files into a PDF and extracting the text.
> >
> > However, I have recently run into this known issue
> > <
> https://support.abbyy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013874239-Each-page-is-duplicated-with-the-thumbnail-image-while-converting-TIFF-to-PDF-in-FineReader
> >even
> > though each TIFF file is the same resolution.
> >
> > I opened a support ticket with ABBYY and their proposed resolution is
> > for
> > me to convert to another format (jpg) then to pdf. I do not like this
> > for
> > two reasons 1)it is time and resource consuming to do two
> > transformations
> > and 2) there is some image quality loss when doing this.
> >
> >
> > This leaves me with two questions:
> >
> > 1. Has anyone been able to find a better workaround for this issue?
> >
> > 2. Does anyone have recommendations for another GUI based OCR program?
> > My
> > quick research is pointing to Tesseract, but since I work with
> > volunteers
> > I'd prefer a GUI based solution.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > *Erica Findley (she/her)*
> > *Systems & Metadata Librarian*
> > *x80591*
> > Multnomah County Library
> > Isom Operations Center: Thu 8 am - 5 pm, Fri 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm
> > Teleworking: Mon - Wed 8 am - 5 pm, Fri 8 am - 12 pm
> > multcolib.org <http://www.multcolib.org/>
> > My pronouns are she/her/hers
>
>