OCR - anyone familiar?

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A department here have shown interest in scanning their request scans, which has a hand written laboratory number in the to corner, which they want recognised by way of OCR, then this scan sent to an SMB share and the file name contain that laboratory number as the file name.

We have quite a few Konica MFD devices around which all scan to shares, but they have no OCR ability.

Does anyone use OCR or have experience setting up a similar scenario to the above in their enterprise?

Thanks in advance
Jim
 
omnipage pro can do that, set it up as a batch manager.

Set up to watch a folder, as soon as a tiff comes in, it grabs it ocr's it and dumps it out on another folder as a searchable pdf, then deletes the original tiff.

We would do approx 15-200 conversions a day. Though it does have a habit of freezing randomly (can run for 20+ days , then stop every other day after that)
 
Seems like OmniPage Pro is now called OmniPage Ultimate, it still has the batch processing.

For some reason it's $499 but only £119.99 until Jan 20th.

Would be nice if it could run as a Windows Service but you can't have everything.
 
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Turns out the 8 digit number on the card they wanted to OCR sits below a barcode of that number, so im going to use BarcodeFiler ... it scans input folder, detects a barcode, then outputs the file with that name of the barcode data and this can be run from command line so its a winner all-around ... costs £175 which is a bargain for the man power/time it's going to save
 
How does the form have a printed barcode but the number is handwritten? That's a bit of a strange sounding setup.
 
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