Re: OCR

de John Corliss 06/19/2006 11:52

Susan Bugher wrote:
> Big Papi wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to perform OCR on a jpeg file? I have a scanned
>> article I found on the Internet that I would like to convert into a
>> text file. Is there anything that can do this without rescanning the
>> image?
>
> If necessary, you can easily convert JPGs to other image formats. See
> the apps listed here:
> http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2006/PL2006GRAPHICS.php#Viewer
>
> If you need an OCR program try this app - it's gotten good reviews here
> recently:
>
> Program: FineReader
> Company: ABBYY Software
> Ware: (Registerware) (free) (v 4.0) older version of $ware; language
> choice during setup
> http://www.ilsoftware.it/articoli.asp?ID=2904 (snip)

Susan,
Is that download working again? I thought people were having problems
with it or the password or whatever.

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