Fran's HI6018 Digital History Blog

OCR – Optical Character Recognition .. April 1, 2010

This is a Demo from Readiris 12 .. couple of different little demos .. worth having a look at … other than to look at the first one, I havent looked at any of the others. Is a great resource to have, whereby if you have a lot of handwritten text, its all scanned in i.e. multiple hand written surveys, through the magic of OCR the software deciphers the handwriting in the set area of the answer sheets, each survey has a unique bar code – unique for each individual survey answer sheet and for each specific survey. Presto, end result is a lovely report summary! THus redeeming some poor unfortunate copy typist i.e me, from hours of mind numbingly boring repitition. Happiness all round!!

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