Recently, my friend who also happens to be my younger sister’s friend, Azizah wanted me to do some typing work for her. She gave me about 10 lists of manually written names & addresses to type out in WORD. It takes me about 3 to 4 hours to finish the 212 names & addresses. Beforehand, to make my work easier, I went looking for a OCR (Optical Character Recognition) computer program online that could read scanned documents. I found some which are SimpleOCR (http://www.simpleocr.com/) & TextScan (http://www.getfreesofts.com/soft/463/23566/OCRTextScan_2_Word.html). SimpleOCR is a free program while you must pay to be able to fully use TextScan. Being the cheapskate that I am, I chose & downloaded SimpleOCR.
I did not expect the name & address list to be actually had written stuff. Although the program includes a 14 day trial of hand writing recognition program, it is practically useless! I tried it with one of the hand written list. After scanning it & letting the program do its work, the results came out as gibberish in WORD. The process took a few minutes. The program queried me whether I want the program to continue ‘learning’. The result it gave was not even close to the real content. Man, I just closed the program after letting it ‘learn’ a few tries. SimpleOCR works best with scanned documents that were written using computer fonts or perhaps at least type writer fonts. Perhaps you have found a need for such alphabet recognition software so you may want to try SimpleOCR!
Below are the Scanned Document & Results screen shots of a scanned document using SimpleOCR:
Scanned Document
Results Screen Shot
I did not expect the name & address list to be actually had written stuff. Although the program includes a 14 day trial of hand writing recognition program, it is practically useless! I tried it with one of the hand written list. After scanning it & letting the program do its work, the results came out as gibberish in WORD. The process took a few minutes. The program queried me whether I want the program to continue ‘learning’. The result it gave was not even close to the real content. Man, I just closed the program after letting it ‘learn’ a few tries. SimpleOCR works best with scanned documents that were written using computer fonts or perhaps at least type writer fonts. Perhaps you have found a need for such alphabet recognition software so you may want to try SimpleOCR!
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