TIFF to searchable PDF using ORC!

[sophie_newbie]

I was hoping to incorperate the batch conversion of US Patent TIFF
images to searchable PDF into a Python script.

I dunno is there any freely abailable tool that could do such a thing?

Preferably one that can run from the windows command line?

There are several programs out there but they all seem to have to be
paid for!!!

Sophie.

 

[H-Man]

I was hoping to incorperate the batch conversion of US Patent TIFF
images to searchable PDF into a Python script.

I dunno is there any freely abailable tool that could do such a thing?

Preferably one that can run from the windows command line?

There are several programs out there but they all seem to have to be
paid for!!!

Sophie.

You will not have a great deal of success using any of the freeware OCR
programs out there as they are simply not that good. The other issue is
that the freeware offerings do not keep any formatting, so although the
result might be searchable, it would be difficult to read as formatting
would be lost. AFAIK, you're going to have to pay to get this
functionality.

Freeware OCR
http://jocr.sourceforge.net/download.html

http://www.simpleocr.com/ (not command line and not as great as the web
site claims it is)

This is about all I can find that's free.
I uswed to use TextBridge. Okay for it's time but it wasn't that good. I
recently bought Omnipage, by far the most impressive OCR program I have
ever seen in terms of accuracy.

 

[FTR]

You will not have a great deal of success using any of the freeware OCR
programs out there as they are simply not that good. The other issue is
that the freeware offerings do not keep any formatting, so although the
result might be searchable, it would be difficult to read as formatting
would be lost. AFAIK, you're going to have to pay to get this
functionality.

Freeware OCR
http://jocr.sourceforge.net/download.html

http://www.simpleocr.com/ (not command line and not as great as the web
site claims it is)

This is about all I can find that's free.
I uswed to use TextBridge. Okay for it's time but it wasn't that good. I
recently bought Omnipage, by far the most impressive OCR program I have
ever seen in terms of accuracy.

We have to admit, this is the state of the art. This is why I had to buy
Finereader which was less expensive than Omnipage (below 100€) but with
comparable accuracy (said the tests)

Frank

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[socrtwo]

I was hoping to incorperate the batch conversion of US Patent TIFF
images to searchable PDF into a Python script.

I dunno is there any freely abailable tool that could do such a thing?

Preferably one that can run from the windows command line?

There are several programs out there but they all seem to have to be
paid for!!!

Sophie.

Nobody has mentioned the National Library of Medicine's freeware/free
service MyMorph (http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/mymorph.htm).
Does this fit the bill in any way? Is there a command line element of
it?

 

[socrtwo]

By the way, what might really fit the bill is to write a scipt to use
the Free Service (from the National Library of Medicine again) to
convert the tiffs to text via it OCR DocMorph service and then choose
something like Acropad (http://www.acropad.com/), which will convewrt
text to pdf via the command line. Text To PDF also is freeware and
works from the command line
(http://www.adultpdf.com/products/txttopdf/index.html).

 

[H-Man]

We have to admit, this is the state of the art. This is why I had to buy
Finereader which was less expensive than Omnipage (below 100¤) but with
comparable accuracy (said the tests)

Frank

Yeah, I know. I'd have never bought OmniPage directly 'cause of the cost.
Serif Software sent me one of their Natasha emails, and offered it
(OmniPage version 14) and their Movie Plus software for like $20 or $30US.
I can't remember exactly but it was a steal. Version 15 was just released
but still a steal. I needed a solution to reading PDF's so that I could
edit them, it works extremely well for this purpose.