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Dell AIO OCR Software?

by Arcelios Feb 8, 2009 1:34AM PST

I have recently been checking out the nifty OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software that comes with my Dell AIO A920, but I've found that I have trouble saving the files. Currently, when I use OCR, it lets me save the image file of the original scan, OR save the OCR output text file. However, I would like to save both of these files side by side so that I can contribute to Project Gutenberg, a book digitization organization. Of course, using a Dell AIO for this purpose is a slow process, and certainly not the best way to do it, but it's all I have. Anyway, I would LIKE to be able to have the entire output of the OCR software put into one text file, then have the images in the same directory (separately, of course). Any ideas as to how to accomplish this?

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Arc

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Note:

by Arcelios Feb 8, 2009 2:24AM PST

Additional note:

I have been able to output the .tif file with all the pages, but when I attempt to do OCR on this, it only outputs text from the first page, and none of the others.

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What I have done

by PudgyOne Feb 8, 2009 9:21PM PST

I updated the List of Applications to send scans to, I don't have my notes handy as I am switching computers. I then scan to Open Office and use the .rtf extension for it to scan to. I use my ADF to scan many pages and it works pretty good. Here is a Wiki on how to update the list of applications.

http://en.community.dell.com/wikis/printers/update-list-of-applications-to-send-scans-to.aspx

Rick

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