[Web4lib] OCR scanning for archives

[Andrew Hankinson]

I've heard that ABBYY is one of the better packages out there:

http://www.abbyy.com/finereader_for_mac/

I haven't used it myself, though.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Florence Tang <TANG_FY at mercer.edu> wrote:

> I forgot to mention that this will be for use on a Macintosh.
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> Happy Holidays!
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> Florence
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florence Tang
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 2:36 PM
> To: 'web4lib at webjunction.org'
> Subject: OCR scanning for archives
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> Is there software that you use and would recommend for optical character
> scanning of documents for archival purposes?  OmniPage Professional, Adobe
> Acrobat Capture or another product?
>
> Thank you and Happy Holidays.
>
> Florence
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