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A paperless office workflow
Hi Kirk ---
__________ Author of Mac Kung Fu Over 400 tips, tricks, hints and hacks for OS X http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack2/mac-kung-fu
A paperless office workflow
Whilst I would love it if Apple added OCR functionality into Preview, I just don't see it happening for the simple reason that OCR is not always terribly accurate. It's gotten better over the years, but I've had to OCR a scanned PDF more than once, and gotten different results each time, before I ended up with the text that I was looking for.
A paperless office workflow
Evernote OCRs images you upload, and does fuzzy recognition. If it see what appears to be the word "Bavid" or "Oavid", for example, it'll also record "David" just in case. All three will turn-up in searches. So I can see how Apple could easily make OCR work better using this kind of technology. (Incidentally Evernote don't let you get the OCR'd text out of the PDF -- it's strictly to aid searches.) ---
__________ Author of Mac Kung Fu Over 400 tips, tricks, hints and hacks for OS X http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack2/mac-kung-fu
A paperless office workflow
I use the Scansnap S1500M and have tried the "built-in" OCR, as well as Acrobat's and PDFpen's. Because I'm using Hazel+AppleScript to automatically sort and rename a large number of bills and accounts, I rely heavily on identifying unique criteria (URLs, account #'s, etc) to ensure that I'm moving and renaming the bill correctly. I have found that OCR does an okay job of it, but I do have to re-OCR documents occasionally to have them get the correct information without adding space or misidentifying characters. |
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