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transform hand written data

don farrell

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September 19, 2005 at 10:34 am

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hi,
can anyone suggest a way to transform millions of lines of handwritten records to a text format so as I can bring them into a db. the records share the same format : no., name, address, age etc but the hand writing changes as the records have been updated over 70 years.
any feedback much appreciated.
thanks in advance

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Merrill Aldrich SSCrazy Points: 2358 More actions · Answer 1

It sounds like you are in for a big ol' heap of data entry. Could you use a service like

http://www.dotcom-infoway.com/dataentry.asp

?

don farrell Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 575 More actions · Answer 2

thanks for the reply,

im trying to avoid the manual data entry route as there is a large room full of records spanning 100 years....but there may be no other way...

John Kane SSCrazy Points: 2810 More actions · Answer 3

Checkout some of the Opical Character Recognization (OCR) software vendors:

OmniPage - http://www.scansoft.com/omnipage/standard/

IRIS OCR - http://www.irisusa.com/

and some high-end, production-level (>100 pages per minute?) scanners that work with the OCR software. Depending upon the quality of the documents (clear, black text on white paper), the error rates should be low. I worked for a small startup (now defunct) where this technology was very effectively used for data entry purposes...

Enjoy,

John

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 4

sounds like yet another outsourcing to India to save money

Lowell

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Rudyx - the Doctor SSC-Forever Points: 43695 More actions · Answer 5

Try China instead. You can get 30% resources for the same cost !

RegardsRudy KomacsarSenior Database Administrator"Ave Caesar! - Morituri te salutamus."

don farrell Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 575 More actions · Answer 6

thanks for all the feedback on this...problem with outsourcing it overseas is that the data is very sensitive and there is only one copy held in a secure fireproof room...company would not like it to leave building let alone country.

looks like there is a huge data input project pending ... 🙁

amit hooja Valued Member Points: 74 More actions · Answer 7

well you can convert them to tiff images

and then send ot outsourcing location .

offcourse you have to put in resource to do that .