Does the software include any OCR software? I'd like to scan in pages of old books and be able to get them into Word. Does the software include Optical Character Recognition software?Thanks! Does the software include any OCR software? I'd like to scan in pages of old books and be able to get them into Word. Does the software include Optical Character Recognition software? » Read More Does the software include any OCR software? I'd like to scan in pages of old books and be able to get them into Word. Does the software include Optical Character Recognition software?Thanks! « Show Less
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I've used the OCR and it works reasonably well. The only issue i have with it is that it creates blocks of text in Word that have to be treated individually rather than as an entire document.
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The product I purchased was the one that came with a disk. However, Amazon also has sellers that sell just the download for programs. So, you have to make sure the product you are considering is one with the disk. BTW, Love the program!!!! Came from OmniPro, 2010 version whatever that was. All of a sudden, that program stopped working and the fix that was required???? Omni Pro required us to purchase a newer version holding us hostage until we updated. We help inmate authors selfpublish books and use our scanner every day - so their little trick essentially disrupted our business. We are not only happy we found a solution around Omni Pro - but the Abbyy Finereader 11 Pro is such a better program than Omni Pro.
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I have that software on my computer so when I scan and import it works. Are you wanting to use the printer as a stand alone unit that would scan something, process by ocr, and print it out without going through a computer? I don't think it would do that.....
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You need an OCR program to do that , it`s not a scanner issue , it`s a software you need to use
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I typically use photos of documents for my text conversions and I find the quality of the table scan depends depends on the quality of the photo input. if the photo is slightly out of focus the ocr output is poor. A scanner should be better quality than some photos so it should work.
54140
It can b, t doable. The software included in th scanner driver contins OCR (Optical Character Recognition).If you scanning a clean document, the OCR will recognize text, so it wll be possble to save it as a text document and later format and convert into Word document.
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This canon scanner is top shelf. When you load the software Canon Solutions Icon will appear on your desktop. You then have 5 choices as how you want to scan. To answer your question, Yes you can scan as a Word doc. Use the center option "Copy" and send to either printer or to your documents. Hope this is helpful.
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I do not understand the question, but the (driver) software that includes the scanner works great. I have worked with photographs, text and documents and it has gone well. I use it for the house.
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I received software called ABBYY FineReader 9.0 with my scanner, that is suppose to convert scanned documents into ORC documents I have not tried it. This is from the Abbyy Fine Reader web site-----"ABBYY FineReader Sprint is a one-click OCR and conversion utility that instantly turns your paper documents into various electronic formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel and searchable PDF. FineReader Sprint accurately reads documents in 179 languages and precisely preserves original document's layout and formatting. This easy-to-use OCR tool reduces the need of retyping and paper storage. FineReader Sprint is designed for basic OCR tasks". Hope this helps-like I said I have not tried this software. I received software called ABBYY FineReader 9.0 with my scanner, that is suppose to convert scanned documents into ORC documents I have not tried it. This is from the Abbyy Fine Reader web site-----"ABBYY FineReader Sprint is a one-click OCR and conversion utility that instantly turns your paper documents into various electronic formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel and searchable PDF. FineReader Sprint accurately reads documents in 179 languages and precisely preserves original document's layout and formatting. This easy-to-use OCR tool reduces the need of retyping and paper... » Read More I received software called ABBYY FineReader 9.0 with my scanner, that is suppose to convert scanned documents into ORC documents I have not tried it. This is from the Abbyy Fine Reader web site-----"ABBYY FineReader Sprint is a one-click OCR and conversion utility that instantly turns your paper documents into various electronic formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel and searchable PDF. FineReader Sprint accurately reads documents in 179 languages and precisely preserves original document's layout and formatting. This easy-to-use OCR tool reduces the need of retyping and paper storage. FineReader Sprint is designed for basic OCR tasks". Hope this helps-like I said I have not tried this software. « Show Less
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This comes with everything I needed, including the scanning software, and with Adobe PDF OCR (character recognition). So I store all my scans as a PDF and organize them in my own directory structure (for example, 2013 receipts). I found this to be the best solution. I also own a Neat Receipts scanner, but their scanner only works with their software and their scanning software doesn't reduce the scanned file size very well, and is much slower than this scanner. So with Neat Receipts you can't incorporate multiple scanning devices, and utilize Dropbox if you scan some items with your cell phone, etc. I hope this helps with your decision. This comes with everything I needed, including the scanning software, and with Adobe PDF OCR (character recognition). So I store all my scans as a PDF and organize them in my own directory structure (for example, 2013 receipts). I found this to be the best solution. I also own a Neat Receipts scanner, but their scanner only works with their software and their scanning software doesn't reduce the scanned file size very well, and is much slower than this scanner. So with Neat Receipts you can't incorporate multiple scanning devices, and utilize Dropbox if you scan some items with your cell... » Read More This comes with everything I needed, including the scanning software, and with Adobe PDF OCR (character recognition). So I store all my scans as a PDF and organize them in my own directory structure (for example, 2013 receipts). I found this to be the best solution. I also own a Neat Receipts scanner, but their scanner only works with their software and their scanning software doesn't reduce the scanned file size very well, and is much slower than this scanner. So with Neat Receipts you can't incorporate multiple scanning devices, and utilize Dropbox if you scan some items with your cell phone, etc. I hope this helps with your decision. « Show Less
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I have had no problems scanning pages from top to bottom on larger books. Smaller books have to be scanned from the spine to the edge of the pages side ways. It may take some practice to scan the entire manuscript on pages and to get the best speed. I use a class 10 chip. I have had only a few pages have "warps" on the scans. I am very pleased with this product, it has met all of my needs and expectations as a genealogist.
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The unit and software does not have OCR capabilities, as far as I know. You would need separate software to do that. I expect you could find something that would work. I did not have that application in mind. It works great for my application.
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FWIW, I bought the Scansnap 1500 for Mac 6 months ago; use it with MacBook Pro. Haven't bought any organizing software yet, and so far, haven't missed it. I just run OCR in Acrobat AFTER I have scanned the docs (doing it during scanning takes too much time). When I want to find something, I just put the word in the Finder spotlight window, and 99% of time it finds the doc. I only 'name' docs that I think are really important (e.g. taxes).
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you should check with the seller since each one might have different software on it. The laptop I bought supports Open Office program and not Word, but it can open Word documents.
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For an OCR solution you should attempt to process the image via Evernote or Adobe Acrobat.They will do a secondary pass on the image to determine text and Evernote will then let you search terms in the receipt.
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Using the Epson scan program, you can do this. This program is surprisingly good, at least compared to what I'm used to (I had a Canon scanner previously). There is an option when you first start a scan telling it to ask for a prompt for more pages. You continue to add pages until you're done, then click on save, and it saves to multi-page PDF. Pretty easy, in my opinion.
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Call ABBY on this one - FR works with word and dff files. No OCR program is perfect but FR does do a great job.