[blindlaw] High-Volume OCR

[David Andrews]

Some people are mixing up apples and oranges, so to say.  There are 
two issues, the scanner, and the OCR software.  The scanner takes a 
picture of a document, and the software processes that picture 
turning it into words.  Given a fast computer with lots of memory, 
the thing that makes the most difference is the scanner.  You can get 
a slow one for $100, but a really fast industrial-strength one will 
be thousands of dollars.

Dave

At 08:25 AM 9/22/2009, you wrote:
>Don't use Kurzweil.  ABBYY Finereader or OmniPro are both commercial , less
>expensive and a lot better.
>
>Joe Orozco
>
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>[mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aser Tolentino
>Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 4:01 AM
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>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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