I have used Omnipage Pro with excellent results for several years, but I am
using it with a fast SCSI scanner connected to an Adaptec PCI SCSI card.
Omnipage needs tuning to get the best results, and one way to do this is to
import your Word dictionary, and any add-on medical dictionary. My main
gripe with it (minor) is that it can't work out its "1"s (number) from its
"I"s (first person pronoun). However, scanning in documents is time
consuming - you need to *manually* draw zones on each page, as there is no
standard format for NHS letters. If you allow it (or any other OCR software)
to draw zones automatically, you get all the increasing garbage which
Hospitals like to put on their letters, including logos and the like.
Checking this afterwards takes longer than quickly drawing one or two zones
on each document.
Don't use the cut-down version of any of the OCR packages supplied with the
scanners for heavy duty use - they are not powerful enough. But you can get
an upgrade to a fully featured OCR package much cheaper from this cut-down
version, rather than buying the full retail version.
Laurie Miles
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>In terms of here-and-now practical use, does anyone have any
recommendations
>for OCR software that might suit both relatively high-volume (ie practice
>incoming mail and a document feeder) and low-volume (home A4 flatbed
scanners.
>Textbridge seems unusable, and I've heard that Caere Omnipage isn't a lot
>better.
>
>Emile de Sousa
>Weary of Weybridge
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