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On May 13, 2013 8:24 AM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >… On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes<br>
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:44 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> >>…I had two cram-full filing cabinets scanned, but never used any of the scanned materials because I had no way to index any of it. What we need is some way to read through all that material, some of which was hand-written, and create searchable files.<br>
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> >… The phrase you want to search on is "optical character<br>
> recognition", or just "OCR". There are many solutions<br>
> out there, some of them free, some of them pretty high<br>
> quality. There are probably some that are both.<br>
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> We OCRed all of it. The results were better than nothing, not great. A lot of what I had left in my filing cabinet were hand-written notes from meetings. In the form they existed, they were not accessible anyway, so I guess it was no real loss.</p>
<p>That's what I mean about quality. Try some other OCR.</p>