gHacks technology news » top ocr http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 OCR Document Scanning With Smartphones http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/12/ocr-document-scanning-with-smartphones/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/12/ocr-document-scanning-with-smartphones/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:07:56 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=11144 The common way to scan documents is to use a hardware scanner to do so and a text recognition software afterwards using optical character recognition (ocr). The advent of digital cameras and smartphones created alternative means for OCR document scanning. A good enough digital camera is capable of photographing the document which can then be processed by OCR software programs like TOP OCR.

TOP OCR processes images of documents that have either been taken by scanners, digital cameras or smartphones. It basically allows to emulate the usual document scanning that is done by a hardware scanner with images taken by digital cameras instead.

The software ocr application will process images that get loaded into the software program by the user of the computer system. It will display the scanned document in the left window and the text that has been processed by the OCR document scanning in the right window. The software developers of the OCR software are recommending at least a 3 Megapixel camera to take the image of the document. They have setup a tutorial page with many helpful tips on getting the best results.

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The OCR document scanning process itself takes only a few seconds per page. Results are instantly shown in the right window which offers basic text editing capabilities to correct any errors in the automatic text recognition process.

The OCR part of the software program is providing basic image manipulation features like rotating the scanned images or changing the image contrast. TOP OCR is a multi-lingual OCR software program for the Windows operating system that produces impressive results if the source image is of good quality.

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