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    WSklott54
    AskWoody Lounger
    September 7, 2005 at 3:01 pm #423838

    Anyone know of any GOOD OCR software that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg? money

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    • DaveA
      AskWoody_MVP
      September 7, 2005 at 3:17 pm #971439

      I am using “OmniPage 15” and is worth every penny that I have spent on it. I have been running OmniPage for many years and each version has been money well spent.

      You will find some other programs that cost less, but your clean up time will be a lot longer on with any of the better packages.

      DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
      Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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    • WSherworth
      AskWoody Lounger
      September 7, 2005 at 5:06 pm #971464

      I use SimpleOCR which is free. I find it very good but must admit I’m not a big user. You could try it as it costs nothing but your time.

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    • WStimelord
      AskWoody Lounger
      September 7, 2005 at 6:18 pm #971480

      We use Scansoft OCR with our software. It is built in and it does a great job IF you can inform it in advance what to look for. I am going to try and attach a screenshot of the configuration window. This is done through our software so I am sure that the Scansoft window would be different.

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    • WSJohnBF
      AskWoody Lounger
      September 7, 2005 at 6:40 pm #971485

      FWIW, if you have MS Office 2003 (not sure about earlier versions), you have a free (but not-so-good) OCR product in the MS Office Doc Imaging Software as explained in OW v10-n28 and OW v10-n29.

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      • DaveA
        AskWoody_MVP
        September 7, 2005 at 8:19 pm #971522

        And MOST new scanners come with a stripped down version of OmniPage

        DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
        Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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        • WSdillon65
          AskWoody Lounger
          September 8, 2005 at 11:55 pm #971886

          Hello Dave:

          I am using the same software as you, however, the version is Pro 11.0; I must admit that I found it difficult to use, I was under the impression that it picked up everything. The frames were a real pain, how does version 15.0 differ.

          Thanks dillon

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          • DaveA
            AskWoody_MVP
            September 9, 2005 at 3:24 am #971905

            I have used every version since version 9 and ALL have been a giant step forward on each version.

            I just did a 174 page scan and it was 98% complete. Yes, in the MS Word document, there are a lot of sections and text boxes, do to the different text and image areas. But if one was you look at the structure one can clean things up quite quickly.

            I feel it is money well spent.

            DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
            Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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