I need the best OCR software money can buy

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  1. Posts : 294
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    I need the best OCR software money can buy


    I have a client that wants his hand written documents scanned to readable, editable text. His handwriting is close to scribbled cursive. I tried gave Abbyy Professional a try but it would not recognize the writing. Is there another option?
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  2. Posts : 9,600
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    ABBYY is about as good as it gets. There are limits to what OCR can do; even when it can read text, there results normally require considerable editing to weed out the errors in character recognition. Results are normally best when reading machine printed text. One has to have a consistent, fine fist (excellent handwriting) to expect OCR to be able to read handwritten text. The closer one gets to cursive, the more errors will creep in until the OCR simply can't read it, period.
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  3. Posts : 294
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    Thank you for your reply. I tried looking for other OCR and ICR programs and none seem to be able to read scribbled cursive. Heck, even I have a extremely difficult time reading what's written so I doubt any software would be able to. Now I'm faced with the problem of having to fully refund the customer and take a loss because I didn't expect the writing to be impossible to read. And the client being a attorney doesn't help at all either…
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    0pTicaL said:
    Thank you for your reply. I tried looking for other OCR and ICR programs and none seem to be able to read scribbled cursive. Heck, even I have a extremely difficult time reading what's written so I doubt any software would be able to. Now I'm faced with the problem of having to fully refund the customer and take a loss because I didn't expect the writing to be impossible to read. And the client being a attorney doesn't help at all either…
    Ouch!
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  5. Posts : 294
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    Gonna give OmniPage18 a try. If it works half the time, great, if it doesn't, oh well lesson learned. Who the hell still writes everything on paper these days and have their assistant type it up in word. Seems highly inefficient and redundant to me. First time I ever been to a lawyers office who refuses to use a word processor.
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  6. Posts : 9,600
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    How old is the lawyer?
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  7. Posts : 294
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    In his mid to late 70s
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  8. Posts : 9,600
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    0pTicaL said:
    In his mid to late 70s
    That explains it. That's the way he learned to do it and refused to embrace more modern technology either because he is a Luddite or is cheap (or both).
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    Either way, I hope I can offer some type of resolution that he'll be satisfied with. These are the worse type of customers.
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    If nothing else, then scanning in each page so that there is an electronic copy might be of some value.

    I've helped a few offices over the years and have come to learn some of the rules/regulations that they operate under. I've never worked with a law office, so I don't know of any special (costly?) precautions that they face. I doubt that it is cost effective to even attempt to scan/convert these handwritten notes to a form that can be edited/searched. If this is a must, then the lawyer might be better off dictating his own notes to a typist. They might complete the project before he keels over :-(
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