OCR Service at a Public Library?

[Steffen Schilke]

Dear John,

you might want to have a look at Google Tesseract
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr so you have no costs at the start for such
a server/ service. If your IT is good a Linux box could do the job.

Kind regards

sws
Am 07.07.2016 23:04 schrieb "Lolis, John" <jlolis at whiteplainsny.gov>:

> (apologies for cross-posting)
>
> We're looking to digitize our microfilm collection, and I thought that we
> might want to go a step further and offer an OCR service to our patrons.
>
> Is there anyone out there who is making OCR available to the public?  And
> if so, how are you going about that?  Is it simply through a standalone
> scanner workstation?  Do you charge a fee?
>
> In particular, I'm looking into ABBYY's Recognition Server (
> https://www.abbyy.com/recognition-server/) for the initial digitization
> project and going forward, for an OCR service.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> John Lolis
> Coordinator of Computer Systems
>
> <http://whiteplainslibrary.org/>
> 100 Martine Avenue
> White Plains, NY  10601
>
> tel: 1.914.422.1497
> fax: 1.914.422.1452
>
> http://whiteplainslibrary.org/
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