OCR software

• Tim Mitchell

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  June 26, 2007 at 7:40 am

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  Does anyone have any recommendations for a good OCR software?  I have a stack of forms that needs to be scanned and converted to Word.

  Tim Mitchell, Microsoft Data Platform MVP
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• Roland Gauna

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  June 26, 2007 at 9:17 pm

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  HI Tim

           I suggest Form Storm

   tp://www.charactell.com/FormStormDL.html)

  Is a good OCR programm.

  Sincerily Roland

• Phil Factor

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  June 27, 2007 at 3:47 am

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  Without any hesitation I'd recommend ABBYY Finereader. I've used it for years, even on typewritten stuff, and it has never let me down. I've scanned-in entire books. It is uncannily accurate.

  Best wishes,
  Phil Factor

• Luke L

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  June 27, 2007 at 7:17 am

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  I've not used it, but I was just reading te below link yesterday.

  Perhaps it could be of use...

  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/google-and-open-source-ocr.html

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• Russell Shilling

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  June 28, 2007 at 4:53 pm

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  If you have MS Office 2003, check out the MS Document Imaging. There's an OCR function in that -- it does a passable job of getting the text.

  Worth a look before you buy something.

  So long, and thanks for all the fish,

  Russell Shilling, MCDBA, MCSA 2K3, MCSE 2K3

• Grant Bradley

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  July 1, 2007 at 8:48 am

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  OmniPage is used by Laserfiche because of it's accuratcity.