image to text (OCR)
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- gabe
i have a boatload of content that has been supplied as scanned images. i don't have access to the actual paper documents, just the scans themselves.
none of the online services that offer optical character recognition are able to extract the text from the images.
has anyone found themselves in a similar situation? do you know of any software that might do the trick? i'm on OSX, btw.
thanks much!
- Amicus0
Import to InDesign, Export to PDF and use Acrobats inbuilt OCR features??
better than nothing, but how good are the scans themselves?
- ornj0
Intern?
Sorry I can't be of any real help. That sucks.
- acescence0
tesseract ocr is free and works pretty well depending on how the text is laid out. readiris works better but is not cheap.
- gabe0
cool thanks guys, will try some of your suggestions. at the moment omj, that's basically the route i'm going...cheap data entry :\