[blindlaw] Batch Recognition of OCR

Sat Sep 2 22:08:53 UTC 2017

K1000 is capable of doing batch conversion through a utility that is installed with the software.

Respectfully,
Aser Tolentino, Esq.

> On Sep 2, 2017, at 14:02, Andrew Webb via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks. To my knowledge, K1000 does not perform the mass conversion of docs
> from pdf to accessible format or to Word that people were discussing, unless
> there is a feature that I have missed. However, just in terms of accuracy I
> have genrally been happy with it.
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Cannon [mailto:cannona at fireantproductions.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2017 3:56 PM
> To: Andrew Webb
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> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Batch Recognition of OCR
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> It looks like K1000 uses the Finereader Engine under the covers, so it
> should still be pretty good.
> 
> Aaron
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>> On Sep 2, 2017, at 15:50, Andrew Webb <awebb2168 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> How does Kurzweil 1000 stack up against these other programs? Is it 
>> considered obsolete by this point?
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aaron 
>> Cannon via BlindLaw
>> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2017 4:50 PM
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>> Cc: Aaron Cannon
>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Batch Recognition of OCR
>> 
>> I believe AbbYY Finereader Corporate (not Standard) version has this 
>> capability. FineReader also tends to win in accuracy against OmniPage 
>> in head-to-head tests.
>> 
>> Aaron
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>>> On Sep 1, 2017, at 16:28, Singh, Nandini via BlindLaw
>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am not sure what program you have now, but I use Omni Page by 
>>> Nuance,
>> and I can convert 10-30 documents from PDF to Word or text depending 
>> on the size all in one go. I have tried to do more documents, but that 
>> really slows down things. While the conversion  is running in the 
>> background, I can still check email, review other documents, etc.
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tai
>> Tomasi via BlindLaw
>>> Sent: Friday, September 1, 2017 5:21 PM
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>>> Cc: Tai Tomasi
>>> Subject: [blindlaw] Batch Recognition of OCR
>>> 
>>> Hello all. I am looking for a program that will monitor a given 
>>> folder for
>> new PDF files and convert inaccessible PDF files to accessible PDF 
>> (PDF/a) or Microsoft Word files. Does anyone know of a program that 
>> can do this type of automated batch OCR conversion? Right now, I have 
>> to initiate the OCR process with a command for each document and 
>> rename the new document to the same filename as the original PDF with 
>> a .docx estension. This is not an efficient use of my time. Thanks.
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