OCR Service at a Public Library?

[Ted Koppel]

There’s also FreeOCR      http://www.freeocr.net/, which was built on the Tesseract engine, but is a Windows executable.

Ted


From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Steffen Schilke
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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<mailto: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

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