<div dir="ltr">On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:08 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">>…</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Tsiolkovsky<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:44 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>>…</span>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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span> 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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
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</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Was it hand written stuff, or printed stuff? When did you last try OCR with the best available package? Was a partial index better than nothing?</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>-Kelly</div><div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div></div>