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I have an OCR-product, and it works all the way through till I'm asked which kind of code I should use. It seems it really can't recognise the characters in theTiff-document. Does anyone have an idea what's wrong? Or will anyone briefly tell me from start to end how I import a Tiff to Word with OCR? Thanks a lot. -- Therese |
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I would've thought the .tif was the most oftened OCR document source, being scanned or faxed documents. Your OCR product should accept a .tif, but may require single page or uncompressed format, you will need to check. The .tif should OCR, and the usual output of an OCR is a Word recognizable file. Have you tried a single page uncompressed format? Which product are you using? -- Therese Wrote: Hi I have an OCR-product, and it works all the way through till I'm asked which kind of code I should use. It seems it really can't recognise the characters in theTiff-document. Does anyone have an idea what's wrong? Or will anyone briefly tell me from start to end how I import a Tiff to Word with OCR? Thanks a lot. -- Therese -- Bryan Hessey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Hessey's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=21059 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=534537 |
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Thanks, I think you were the one telling me about the OCR in the first place.:-) I downloaded a free version of "SimpleOCR". A single page uncompressed file, does that mean a JPEG ? Or is that something different? -- Therese "Bryan Hessey" skrev: I would've thought the .tif was the most oftened OCR document source, being scanned or faxed documents. Your OCR product should accept a .tif, but may require single page or uncompressed format, you will need to check. The .tif should OCR, and the usual output of an OCR is a Word recognizable file. Have you tried a single page uncompressed format? Which product are you using? -- Therese Wrote: Hi I have an OCR-product, and it works all the way through till I'm asked which kind of code I should use. It seems it really can't recognise the characters in theTiff-document. Does anyone have an idea what's wrong? Or will anyone briefly tell me from start to end how I import a Tiff to Word with OCR? Thanks a lot. -- Therese -- Bryan Hessey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Hessey's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=21059 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=534537 |
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I know what a JPEG file is, but doesn't know about the uncompressed file.
-- Therese "Therese" skrev: Hi Thanks, I think you were the one telling me about the OCR in the first place.:-) I downloaded a free version of "SimpleOCR". A single page uncompressed file, does that mean a JPEG ? Or is that something different? -- Therese "Bryan Hessey" skrev: I would've thought the .tif was the most oftened OCR document source, being scanned or faxed documents. Your OCR product should accept a .tif, but may require single page or uncompressed format, you will need to check. The .tif should OCR, and the usual output of an OCR is a Word recognizable file. Have you tried a single page uncompressed format? Which product are you using? -- Therese Wrote: Hi I have an OCR-product, and it works all the way through till I'm asked which kind of code I should use. It seems it really can't recognise the characters in theTiff-document. Does anyone have an idea what's wrong? Or will anyone briefly tell me from start to end how I import a Tiff to Word with OCR? Thanks a lot. -- Therese -- Bryan Hessey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Hessey's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=21059 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=534537 |
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To me, an uncompressed image file would mean a BMP.
Bill -------------------- "Therese" wrote in message ... I know what a JPEG file is, but doesn't know about the uncompressed file. -- Therese "Therese" skrev: Hi Thanks, I think you were the one telling me about the OCR in the first place.:-) I downloaded a free version of "SimpleOCR". A single page uncompressed file, does that mean a JPEG ? Or is that something different? -- Therese "Bryan Hessey" skrev: I would've thought the .tif was the most oftened OCR document source, being scanned or faxed documents. Your OCR product should accept a .tif, but may require single page or uncompressed format, you will need to check. The .tif should OCR, and the usual output of an OCR is a Word recognizable file. Have you tried a single page uncompressed format? Which product are you using? -- Therese Wrote: Hi I have an OCR-product, and it works all the way through till I'm asked which kind of code I should use. It seems it really can't recognise the characters in theTiff-document. Does anyone have an idea what's wrong? Or will anyone briefly tell me from start to end how I import a Tiff to Word with OCR? Thanks a lot. -- Therese -- Bryan Hessey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Hessey's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=21059 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=534537 |
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Hi Bill, .tif files can be in Huffman, Packbits, LZW, Group3, Group4 or uncompressed format. As most scanners that I have used have .tif as an output choice it is the format I think of when a document is scanned, I prefer to stay away from the .jpg forms which (to me) seem better suited to happy-snaps rather than serious graphics, but that is just my preference. My suggestion of 'single page uncompressed' meant simply one (only) page as some products have difficulty dealing with multi-page files, and Uncompressed meaning no special format such as Huffman etc., ie the simplest form of document that could be fed to an OCR. I will try the suggested OCR program to see what happens. -- Bill Martin Wrote: To me, an uncompressed image file would mean a BMP. Bill -------------------- "Therese" wrote in message ... I know what a JPEG file is, but doesn't know about the uncompressed file. -- Therese "Therese" skrev: Hi Thanks, I think you were the one telling me about the OCR in the first place.:-) I downloaded a free version of "SimpleOCR". A single page uncompressed file, does that mean a JPEG ? Or is that something different? -- Therese "Bryan Hessey" skrev: I would've thought the .tif was the most oftened OCR document source, being scanned or faxed documents. Your OCR product should accept a .tif, but may require single page or uncompressed format, you will need to check. The .tif should OCR, and the usual output of an OCR is a Word recognizable file. Have you tried a single page uncompressed format? Which product are you using? -- Therese Wrote: Hi I have an OCR-product, and it works all the way through till I'm asked which kind of code I should use. It seems it really can't recognise the characters in theTiff-document. Does anyone have an idea what's wrong? Or will anyone briefly tell me from start to end how I import a Tiff to Word with OCR? Thanks a lot. -- Therese -- Bryan Hessey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Hessey's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=21059 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=534537 -- Bryan Hessey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Hessey's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=21059 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=534537 |
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Further, I have run simpleOCR, selected Machine text, Add page (from file as I have no scanner), Process - convert to text, Accepted suggestions, and Saved file . Opened in MS Word. Tried again with .jpg file. Works fine for both. Where did you get to with your OCR? -- Bryan Hessey Wrote: Hi Bill, .tif files can be in Huffman, Packbits, LZW, Group3, Group4 or uncompressed format. As most scanners that I have used have .tif as an output choice it is the format I think of when a document is scanned, I prefer to stay away from the .jpg forms which (to me) seem better suited to happy-snaps rather than serious graphics, but that is just my preference. My suggestion of 'single page uncompressed' meant simply one (only) page as some products have difficulty dealing with multi-page files, and Uncompressed meaning no special format such as Huffman etc., ie the simplest form of document that could be fed to an OCR. I will try the suggested OCR program to see what happens. -- -- Bryan Hessey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Hessey's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=21059 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=534537 |
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Hi both. Thansk for the answers. It works good now. If I hadn't met you
Bryan, I'd never known what OCR was. But hey thanks :-) -- Therese "Bryan Hessey" skrev: Further, I have run simpleOCR, selected Machine text, Add page (from file as I have no scanner), Process - convert to text, Accepted suggestions, and Saved file . Opened in MS Word. Tried again with .jpg file. Works fine for both. Where did you get to with your OCR? -- Bryan Hessey Wrote: Hi Bill, .tif files can be in Huffman, Packbits, LZW, Group3, Group4 or uncompressed format. As most scanners that I have used have .tif as an output choice it is the format I think of when a document is scanned, I prefer to stay away from the .jpg forms which (to me) seem better suited to happy-snaps rather than serious graphics, but that is just my preference. My suggestion of 'single page uncompressed' meant simply one (only) page as some products have difficulty dealing with multi-page files, and Uncompressed meaning no special format such as Huffman etc., ie the simplest form of document that could be fed to an OCR. I will try the suggested OCR program to see what happens. -- -- Bryan Hessey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Hessey's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=21059 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=534537 |
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Good to see, and thanks for the response. -- Therese Wrote: Hi both. Thansk for the answers. It works good now. If I hadn't met you Bryan, I'd never known what OCR was. But hey thanks :-) -- Therese "Bryan Hessey" skrev: Further, I have run simpleOCR, selected Machine text, Add page (from file as I have no scanner), Process - convert to text, Accepted suggestions, and Saved file . Opened in MS Word. Tried again with .jpg file. Works fine for both. Where did you get to with your OCR? -- Bryan Hessey Wrote: Hi Bill, .tif files can be in Huffman, Packbits, LZW, Group3, Group4 or uncompressed format. As most scanners that I have used have .tif as an output choice it is the format I think of when a document is scanned, I prefer to stay away from the .jpg forms which (to me) seem better suited to happy-snaps rather than serious graphics, but that is just my preference. My suggestion of 'single page uncompressed' meant simply one (only) page as some products have difficulty dealing with multi-page files, and Uncompressed meaning no special format such as Huffman etc., ie the simplest form of document that could be fed to an OCR. I will try the suggested OCR program to see what happens. -- -- Bryan Hessey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Hessey's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=21059 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=534537 -- Bryan Hessey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Hessey's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=21059 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=534537 |
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