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Scanning with OCR

Jan 29, 2006 8:21AM PST

Optical Character Recognition.
I purchased a HP 4570C flat bed scanner. The software that came with it contained Readiris 7 Pro (OCR).
Just a while back I received an offer to update the Readiris for a cost of $125.
My HP scanner that had this original software bundled only cost $150.
Why is the update for Readiris necessary? And why so expensive? Anyone use this software?
I use another OCR software at work. Saves me time from typing in manuscripts that are sent to us.
I wonder why the customer does not email the original word doc? Sure would save time.

-Kevin

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Scanning with OCR
Mar 21, 2006 9:12AM PST

Hi:
My name is Vince. I too, purchased an HP4570C flatbed scanner and it had Readris OCR software bundled, but I never installed nor used, since I also have Onmipage version 15 pro OCR software for scanning documents.

I agree with you why people do not e-mail original documents, hence, there there would be no need to scan or retype the document, if you want it in electronic format. Alternatively, you can scan the document to convert ir into electronic format.


Vince

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A new version probably won't work much better than the
Mar 23, 2006 2:14PM PST

old one. It could be that a lite version was bundled with the scanner, or there could be a later version available. It's the vendor's way of collecting money from you. If what you've got works, why change? If you're going to pay real money, you should probably look at what else is available.

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New version of OCR
Mar 26, 2006 8:07AM PST

Thanks R, seems to be a way of collecting some money back from us.
Good input from you.

_Kevin

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BTW, I just saw a recent presentation on using the scanner
Mar 26, 2006 10:52AM PST

as a high res, digital camera. Kind of interesting. Discussions of how far away the scanner can see, and its short depth of field among other things. It seems there are some folks who work exclusively with scanners, and some who merely use them extensively. Think nudes built from scanned images. A big item of interest was whether the scan would work when turned at 90 degrees to the horizontal.

Interesting to think about the possibilities.

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Using the scanner
Apr 2, 2006 2:04PM PDT

Kidpeat, Right now I cannot scan the text at 45 or 90 degrees.
Just a matter of time when this will be accomplished.

-Kevin

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Do you mean that the scanner will not scan and transmit an
Apr 2, 2006 2:33PM PDT

image when positioned at a 45 degree angle? That is, with the scanner tilted, and the subject matter on its faceplate in the normal fashion.