Re: Best OCR application

In article <4302448c$0$84156$bb4e3ad8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Daddio <Daddio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2005-08-16 14:06:31 -0400, Michelle Steiner <michelle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> > Check out ReadIris 9 (commercial) and VueScan (shareware).
>
> There's probably OmniPage as well. I'm recently back to the Mac after
> a five-year hiatus to the dark side. With Windows FineReader was the
> clear winner when only comparing quality of the resulting OCR. It was
> the little things, such as recognizing small caps rather than seeing
> the text as all caps, recognizing an em-dash as opposed to a hyphen,
> and even recognizing an italicized capital i rather than a forward
> slash.
>
> It depends on what you are doing and how picky you need to be. I used
> to scan entire novels and then carefully proof them and correct any
> errors. If you want something quick and easy for small projects then
> OmniPage or ReadIris could be excellent (haven't tried them on the
> Mac). If you decide to get serious, I'd get the real version of
> FineReader and then get another scanner if necessary.

Also, the full version of Acrobat is extremely useful for some
applications. It can OCR the text in a document, overlay that invisibly
on the original image of the document, and save the whole thing in a
PDF. This gives you a PDF that preserves original formating perfectly
(since it has the image), but that you can find with Spotlight (since it
has machine-readable text). You can even select and copy text with
either Acrobat or Preview, and you'll end up with the editable text on
the clipboard.

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