Re: Scanning text into Info Managers

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Posted by sub
2005-07-16 14:30:33

A few years ago that I got involved in this ABBYY’s FineReader Pro ( http://www.abbyy.com/ ) was the best OCR software re scanning forms, including comprehending Greek letters.

As far as I know the choice is now wider; in fact ABBYY seem to have a dedicated program themselves.

Such software offers a good choice of database export formats. Anyway,
I wouldn’t really worry about formats now that MS Office is XML aware; you can even use it as an intermediate step to convert to RTF or whatever your PIM will read.

What you need to test for yourself though is scanning accuracy as it takes some fine tuning.

alx

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