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How Do OCR Products Compare

March 2006

Q: I have to scan a number of periodicals to PDFs and recognize the text.

I am looking for recommendations as to what product to use ([FineReader]Create?, [OmniPage]Create?, Acrobat, Capture, etc.). Needless to say, the software must allow mergeing the front and back of the pages. OCR speed is an issue, but OCR accuracy is more important.

I am interested in what experiences members have had with these and other products and what product they would recommend?

A: I continue to compare OCR products, and [FineReader]Create? is far and away the best, for almost all purposes. However, I recommend and use v.6, not the later versions 7 or 8, because of the way they misrecognize some text as "small caps" and convert them to all lower case when the small caps attribute is turned off. It there were a way to turn off small caps recognition altogether I would consider upgrading.

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Hive Wiki: How Do OCR Products Compare

A HiveWiki enables web pages to be written collectively in a simple markup language using a web browser. A single page in a HiveWiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is "the wiki"; in effect, a HiveWiki is actually a very simple, easy-to-use user-maintained database for searching or even creating information. Go Here To Setup Fresh Free HiveWiki Now! Home \| Edit \| Index \| Recent Changes How Do OCR Products Compare March 2006 Q: I have to scan a number of periodicals to PDFs and recognize the text. I am looking for recommendations as to what product to use ([FineReader]Create?, [OmniPage]Create?, Acrobat, Capture, etc.). Needless to say, the software must allow mergeing the front and back of the pages. OCR speed is an issue, but OCR accuracy is more important. I am interested in what experiences members have had with these and other products and what product they would recommend? A: I continue to compare OCR products, and [FineReader]Create? is far and away the best, for almost all purposes. However, I recommend and use v.6, not the later versions 7 or 8, because of the way they misrecognize some text as "small caps" and convert them to all lower case when the small caps attribute is turned off. It there were a way to turn off small caps recognition altogether I would consider upgrading. From [FineReader]Create? Digest Number 422 From Articles Fresh copy to be cached until 11:00:06 AM 391 hits This Page: Edit \| History This Wiki: Home \| Related To How_Do_OCR_Products_Compare \| Index \| Recent Changes \| Random Page \| Search Login \| Create New Wiki \| Wiki List 11/23/2008 3:00 AM v0.61.106 ADBEFEED
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