Re: Where can I find FREE OCR ?

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In this case it is actually a fine printed, clean text document in 2 colors.

But the Free version would even make the nice black printed letters look bad
and even if I would have been able to save it as a text document (which it
did not provide, only TIFF, which is what I get anyhow in perfect form from
the Epson), I would never have edited it, because it looked so bad.


"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> R. McCarty wrote:
>
>> Even with paid products, OCR is still not a perfected technology.
>> I've not used a recent OmniPage, so my version is outdated.
>> However, even on it's best day the resulting OCR'd document
>> wasn't that good.
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>
> My experience with OCR is that it greatly depends on the quality of the
> source document. I've had excellent results with OmniPage Pro if the
> source was clean and legible. Not always perfect, but always near perfect.
>
>
>> Too bad the free one wasn't workable. I would
>> say your only option is to purchase a full-fledged OCR package.
>> If you do, don't get your hopes up for a 100% editable document.
>
>
> Good as some of these programs are, I don't think one should ever assume
> that their results will be 100% perfect. Good ones have accuracy in the
> high 90% range, but you should always proofread the results to be sure.
>
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> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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