OCR in Vuescan

[Daniel]

Can someone please post a method for using the OCR in
Vuescan.

thanks

Daniel

 

[CSM1]

Can someone please post a method for using the OCR in
Vuescan.

thanks

Daniel

Scan at 300 DPI, save as a Tiff.
OCR the Tiff file with one of the many OCR programs.

 

[Daniel]

Scan at 300 DPI, save as a Tiff.
OCR the Tiff file with one of the many OCR programs.

But Vuescan has an OCR function.
Doesn't it??

Daniel

 

[CSM1]

But Vuescan has an OCR function.
Doesn't it??

Daniel

No, it does not actually perform OCR. It saves a file for an OCR program to
process.

From the Vuescan Pdf.
http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.pdf

Search the PDF for "ocr" without quotes.
VueScan reads raw sensor data from scanners and writes this data to a TIFF
file for subsequent processing. The final cropped data can be stored in any
combination of TIFF files, JPEG files, PDF files and OCR text files. Index
prints are always stored in a standard Windows BMP file.


See also:

Scanning text from paper for use with OCR software
On page 22 of the above PDF.

OCR text file
Page 67-68

 

[Bart van der Wolf]

You could use the guided mode to start, and switch to advanced mode
when you get the hang of it.

SNIP

No, it does not actually perform OCR.

It actually does. At least it did when I tried it.

It saves a file for an OCR program to process.

Just specify (on the Output tab) OCR text file, and all you get is an
ASCII TXT file with the text it could decypher. It may help to specify
a black and white original setting instead of RGB file, but there is
no difference whether you scan an original directly to txt, or read an
image-file of text and process that.

It's not a powerful as dedicated OCR packages, but it does work for
simple documents.

Bart

 

[Mendel Leisk]

I have good results with Abbyy FineReader. High text accuracy, if
simple text output is your goal. Also, it can create word doc's with
formatting, columns, embedded jpegs, etc.

Not answering your question, but you might give this a try.