OCR - anyone familiar?

Terrier_Jimlad · 13 Jan 2014 at 12:02

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

Terrier_Jimlad · 13 Jan 2014 at 14:57

Thanks for that Nick, sounds promising, just downloading a 1.6GB trial of it now, doesn't look massively expensive either!

Terrier_Jimlad · 14 Jan 2014 at 09:09

Nick - I don't see anyway for OmniPage (DocuDirect part of it) so output the file using the OCR string as the filename, so don't think it can do it.

Terrier_Jimlad · 14 Jan 2014 at 20:44

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

Terrier_Jimlad · 14 Jan 2014 at 21:21

It's no longer hand-written, I was given an old example ...