[geeks] OCR Software

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:05:38PM -0400, Brooke Gravitt wrote:
> Anyone have a favorite OCR software? I'm looking for something that
> can be used stand-alone,  i.e. doesn't require pages being scanned at
> the time the OCR is run. I have a bunch of stuff that was scanned and
> I'd like to batch-convert it to text or html.
> I've looked at ReadIRIS & OmniPage Pro, but they're a bit pricey (and
> don't have downloads for trial versions.)

ABBY FineReader will do image files, and it works *great*, *and* has a
30-day trial download.

http://www.abbyy.com/finereader_ocr/

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas