[gui-talk] Optical Recognition of pdf image files

[Dean Martineau]

Though I suspect it won't be a great solution in this case, I want to remind
people that you can send pdf documents for conversion into readable formats
via e-mail. Attach the document to a message to convert at robobraille.org.  If
you leave the subject blank, you get back a .txt attachment with the text of
the document OCRed.  Pub doc in the subject line for a word document.  For a
form like this, you might at least be able to glean some idea of its
contents by using this process.  I find it gives as good a document as I can
get from those pdf's that contain no text, as good as K1000, and often good
enough for me to read the document well.    


Dean

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-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Curtis
Chong via gui-talk
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 6:40 AM
To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List;
'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List'; NFB in
computer science
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Optical Recognition of pdf image files

Louis:

As treasurer of our New Mexico affiliate, I have found that the 990 is best
reviewed with a reader. It takes too much time to try to OCR the picture of
the form. If you must have a solution, I have used ABBYY FineReader Pro,
which costs around $170. Less expensively, you can use DocuScan Plus by
leasing ($22 a month) Accessibility Anywhere from Serotek.

Cordially,

Curtis Chong

-----Original Message-----
>From: Louis Maher via gui-talk <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Jul 22, 2014 5:19 AM
>To: "'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,
>	GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>, NFB in computer
science <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>Subject: [gui-talk] Optical Recognition of pdf image files
>
>Folks,
>
>I have been given a form 990 from our affiliate to review.  It is a pdf
file
>containing images.  What do people recommend for Optical character
>recognition of this file.  I really do not want to spend $1,000 to solve
>this problem.  The file has 28 pages.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Regards
>Louis Maher
>Phone 713-444-7838
>E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net
>
>
>
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