----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Parker" <brad(a)heeltoe.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:14 AM Subject: OCR of 644 TIFF files? Used to be that you could download a trial version of OmniPage Pro and use it about 10 times or so, maybe more. If you keep one session open run through as much as you can, maybe you could do the whole thing in one or several times. It's the best I have ever used for OCR, you still have to correct it a bit but there are settings you can adjust to help it get things right. Not sure if you can still download it but it's worth a try.

If you have Microshaft XP, it has Omnipage (a limited version of) built-in... Ram -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brad Parker Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:15 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: OCR of 644 TIFF files? Hi, If you had, say, 644 TIFF files, containing black and white scanned text text file, what would you do? The images contain code listings. Is a commercial OCR program the way to go? Any suggestions? Is there any freely-available OCR which would be up to the task? (it's the Symbolics 3600 patent) If it was 64 pages I'd type it in. But 644... :-) -brad

Brad> Hi, Brad> If you had, say, 644 TIFF files, containing black and white Brad> scanned text from a patent application. And say, you wanted to Brad> turn that back into a text file, what would you do? The images Brad> contain code listings. Brad> Is a commercial OCR program the way to go? Any suggestions? Brad> Is there any freely-available OCR which would be up to the Brad> task? Brad> (it's the Symbolics 3600 patent) Adobe Acrobat (the full version, not the reader) has a downloadable OCR option that's quite good. The free version can do 50 pages at a time, so it takes a bit of work to do that many pages, but it can be done. I've used it for a several hundred page document.. paul