[blindlaw] High-Volume OCR

[Robert Jaquiss]

Hello Aser:

     If a scanner has twain drivers, it is likely compatible with either 
K1000 or OpenBook. Also ask the technical support people who support these 
products, they may have dealt with this issue before. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Robert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aser Tolentino" <agtolentino at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:01 AM
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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