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OCR recommendations.

VampyreVampyre
edited March 2005 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
Can anyone recommend some cheap (or preferably free) OCR software for the PC that I can use to OCR the Crash mag scans to get a basic text file and not get left with a text file full of crap!

I've tried some of the free and shareware stuff, and to be honest I may as well copy-type the text into Notepad.

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  • Steve(spt)Steve(spt)
    edited February 2005
    Hi,
    Well with OCR software you get what you pay for. I use a combination of Textbridge pro 11 and OmniPage Pro 14 , Other tools are a Siemens pocket Reader
    [ which you can use also with the Sam Coupe from a small Sam BASIC program, still being programmed ]

    You will always have to do some text editing. The pdf I have done on WoS and for the sam sites [http://www.samcoupe.org/docs.html ] were straight forward with Omnipage . I did make two test format pds with good results.

    With Crash well, I think Omipage pro would do the job which works well with the following scanners Epsom and Xerox are the ones I use. Also loads of RAM on your system. I?ll tell you what, I?ll do a OCR for you pick a page from the WoS archive and I will OCR it with OmniPage and send you my results, and I?ll do the same with Textbridge
    then you can see for your self.

    Regards Steve(spt)
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited February 2005
    Thanks Steve,

    That would be awesome if you could do that.

    I did think it would be a case of paying for what you get. The two that I tried (SimpleOCR and another I can't remeber the name of), it would have been quicker to have typed out the review to be honest.

    The page I was running the test on was the Crash Review of Spellbound from Issue 24 (pages 26 and 27).

    I'm sure I've got a copy of Textbridge soewhere so I might give that a try.

    Thanks for your help. Chris.
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  • Steve(spt)Steve(spt)
    edited February 2005
    Results emaild to you.

    regards, Steve
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited February 2005
    Don't want to be nosy or anything, but can I see the results as well?

    Thanks..
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  • Steve(spt)Steve(spt)
    edited February 2005
    On 2005-02-26 20:25, fogartylee wrote:
    Don't want to be nosy or anything, but can I see the results as well?

    Thanks..

    Done! emailed

    regards Steve(spt)
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited February 2005
    I have to say the results are far better than I thought they would be. I need to play with my omnipage a bit more if I can get scans like that.

    Thanks Steve.
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  • VampyreVampyre
    edited February 2005
    Although I've thanked Steve by email, I'd also like to thank him more publicly.

    By his reccommendations I've found just what I neeeded with result ten-fold what I expected.

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  • Tom-CatTom-Cat
    edited February 2005
    Steve, can ya mail me too ? I am trying to get good results with some local magazines and speccy type-ins and so far not much luck. I am using OmniPage 14 and FineReader 7 (I think) and not much luck. Can you tell me how your OmniPage is setup (options, settings for ocr/scan) ?

    Best regards,
    Tomaz
  • Steve(spt)Steve(spt)
    edited February 2005
    On 2005-02-28 07:36, Tom-Cat wrote:
    Steve, can ya mail me too ? I am trying to get good results with some local magazines and speccy type-ins and so far not much luck. I am using OmniPage 14 and FineReader 7 (I think) and not much luck. Can you tell me how your OmniPage is setup (options, settings for ocr/scan) ?

    Best regards,
    Tomaz

    Sure..Got an email address .. not one in your profile.?

    Steve
  • Tom-CatTom-Cat
    edited March 2005
    I see you found my email ;) Thanx for the ocr's ... might start OCR-ing stuff instead of putting out huge PNG's now...
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