Text Recognition

[CueTrackerRon]

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post (if not, I'm sorry), but I have a good few fairly low-res scans of old magazines, which I need to extract text from. I'm having some trouble finding a program for this, I would probably need a fairly exact one, as the scans are low-res and I can't get higher. Could any of you please point me in the reight direction?

Kind regards

 

[Macman45]

Check Out The Mac App Store

ABBYY FineReader, OCR, Exactscan Pro, OCR Pro and a couple of others to choose from.

I've used OCR pro with good results, but can't vouch for the others as i have not used item...Bound to be one that will work for you

 

[CueTrackerRon]

Thanks for the help Macman45 !

 

[Macman45]

No problem

Thanks for the help Macman45 !

Thanks for the thanks

 

[robgendreau]

Prizmo is particularly good if you are scanning skewed images, as often happens with books and mags. It does OCR and deskew.

You could also try Evernote; just import them and it will OCR them. Does a passable job. Or convert to a format Google Docs can read; it can do it too as I recall. An advantage is, of course, that these are free.

Rob