[blindlaw] Batch Recognition of OCR

Sat Sep 2 22:12:36 UTC 2017

Is there a link or something you could share explaining how that works?  I
would certainly like to play around with that.

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From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aser
Tolentino via BlindLaw
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Batch Recognition of OCR

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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> From: Aaron Cannon [mailto:cannona at fireantproductions.com]
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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:
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>> How does Kurzweil 1000 stack up against these other programs? Is it 
>> considered obsolete by this point?
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>> From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Aaron Cannon via BlindLaw
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>> 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.
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>> Aaron
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>>> On Sep 1, 2017, at 16:28, Singh, Nandini via BlindLaw
>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>>> 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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>>> Subject: [blindlaw] Batch Recognition of OCR
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>>> 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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