Message-Id: <199803101515.IAA65696@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:10:43 -0500 From: "Donald G. Palmer" <mailto:dgpalmer@POBOX.UPENN.EDU> Subject: Re: Imaging/OCR tool To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Victor:The standard Windows OCR applications use OLE to connect between applications (cut & paste, include one object from one app in another app) These include TextBridge, OmniPage Pro (and I believe Cuneiform also)
This allows you to bring up the OCR app whenever you need to perform the OCR function from another app. If you need programming capabilities so you can include OCR routines into an application you are building, these comapnies provide API toolkits also.
Look at: www.caere.com www.xerox.com www.ocr.com
Donald
At 12:25 AM -0500 3/7/1998, Victor E. Segal wrote: >Hello,
>
>can anyone recommend an OCR(optical character recognition) tool which:
>
>1. Provides an API or other means to be called from another application (
>Visual Basic API is preferred, but any will suffice )
>2. Performs OCR of an image
>3. Requires reasonable amount of code to be incorporated( the simplier-the
>better).
>
>Ideally, I'd like to be able to download and try it first.
>
>Thanks.
>Victor.
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