Need a printer, scanner and copier with an OCR

[nasser jamal]

-- Dear members,
I badly need 3 in one (scanner, printer and copier) with an OCR (optical
character recognition) or ReadIRIS, which brand and model would you
recommend, an OCR is a must for my work.
The printer I have now is an HP1215 PSC three in one, this model does not
carry out OCR.

nasser

 

[Newbie Coder]

Nasser,

OCR is controlled by scanner software

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I badly need 3 in one (scanner, printer and copier) with an OCR (optical
character recognition) or ReadIRIS, which brand and model would you
recommend, an OCR is a must for my work.
The printer I have now is an HP1215 PSC three in one, this model does not
carry out OCR.

OCR has nothing to do with the hardware device you have. It's done by
software. If you have *any* scanner, you can buy OCR software and use
it with text scanned by your scanner.

 

[Bob]

Have you tried to send the scan to a word processing program?

 

[Elmo]

-- Dear members,
I badly need 3 in one (scanner, printer and copier) with an OCR (optical
character recognition) or ReadIRIS. Which brand and model would you
recommend, an OCR is a must for my work.
The printer I have now is an HP1215 PSC three in one, this model does not
carry out OCR.

It's up to the software to do OCR, not the scanner.

Try downloading an OCR program and use it with the current printer. Or
purchase some good OCR software; the trial versions do a minimal job and
make many mistakes.

OCR Software search from Cnet's Download.com:

http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tg=dl-20&qt=ocr&tag=srch

Some free ones from that list:

OCR Image to Ascii Utility 1.1
http://www.download.com/OCR-Image-to-Ascii-Utility/3000-10743_4-10622655.html?tag=lst-5

FreeOCR 1
http://www.download.com/FreeOCR/3000-10743_4-10717192.html?tag=lst-1

Hover over the links at the Download.com site to see their price, etc.

 

[Bill Sharpe]

-- Dear members,
I badly need 3 in one (scanner, printer and copier) with an OCR (optical
character recognition) or ReadIRIS, which brand and model would you
recommend, an OCR is a must for my work.
The printer I have now is an HP1215 PSC three in one, this model does not
carry out OCR.

nasser

If you have a recent version of Microsoft Office, MS Document Scanning
is one of the tools included. The program includes OCR.

As others have stated, you can also purchase separate OCR software.

Bill

 

[franktee]

Try Microtek Scanners

 

[Charlie]

ScanSoft Omnipage OCR software is very good.

 

[nasser jamal]

Hi Bob,
Thanks for the support, yes, but it became an Adobe Acrobat, and there you
can not edit it.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hi Bob,
Thanks for the support, yes, but it became an Adobe Acrobat, and there you
can not edit it.

As I explained in a earlier message, you can not just send a scanned
image to a word processing program. It's essentially a *picture* of
the text, not the text itself, and it's not editable.

If you want to edit the text, you need Optical Character Recognition
(usually abbreviated OCR) software. That kind of software look at the
picture, recognizes characters, and turns it into editable text.

There are several OCR products available: OmniPage and Abbyy Fine
reader are two well-known ones. Scanners often come with "Lite"
versions of such software, and if you look around, you may find that
you already have such a product.