[blindlaw] High-Volume OCR

[T. Joseph Carter]

The ScanSnap S1500 has a mere 20 sheet per minute rate.  I'll agree 
that it sounds like it might not be enough.  Another advantage of the 
fi-6140 is that it's got proper SANE drivers.

I don't know if ScanSnap Manager works with a screen reader (if 
someone here can tell me that it does, great!)

I use a ScanSnap on the Mac and love it.  If you don't need the 60 
sheets per minute scanning, it might be just the tool you need.  Just 
remember you're not going to get 60-120 images per minute through OCR 
on pretty much any desktop out there.

Joseph

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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:27:25AM -0400, Rod Alcidonis wrote:
>
>Aser, the scanner you are thinking about in my view, is too slow for 
>the type of work you need it for. I would suggest that you go with a 
>much higher-end scanner, like the Fujitsu 6140, and up. Angie has had 
>great success with the ABBYY finereader, I haven't used it but based 
>on her experience, if you can I would add that to the package. Good 
>luck.
>
>Rod Alcidonis, J.D.
>
>
>
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>From: "Aser Tolentino" <agtolentino at gmail.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 4:01 AM
>To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>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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