[blindlaw] High-Volume OCR

[Joe Orozco]

Don't use Kurzweil.  ABBYY Finereader or OmniPro are both commercial , less
expensive and a lot better.

Joe Orozco

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the
crowd."--Max Lucado 

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From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aser Tolentino
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 4:01 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: [blindlaw] High-Volume OCR

Hi All,

This is probably a bit off topic, but I had an assistive 
technology question. I'm a 3L in Northern California, and have 
been interning with area DA's offices. I started out in one 
office working misdemeanor files; that office paired me with an 
intern to act as a reader. I signed on with a different office 
where I helped the felony unit out with research and 
preliminary hearings; they let me scan case files to PDF with 
one of those big office scanners, which I then ran through 
Kurzweil 1000 OCR. I'm now at a third office that doesn't have 
one of those wonderful multifunction scanners readily at hand 
and am thinking my Canon flatbed isn't up to the task when I'm 
handed a file an inch thick.



I was thinking of getting one of those high-speed scanners (e.g. Fujitsu
ScanSnap) to create PDFs to feed to Kurzweil. But before I 
committed myself though, I figured I'd ask if there was 
something in the OCR solutions market that was better/faster: 
is there something purpose-built to handle this sort of thing?



Any advice, including telling me I'm going about this all wrong 
(perhaps especially that), would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks,

Aser
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