[TriLUG] Electronic Filing Software

[Andrew Perrin]

I used gocr for a research project with some success -- needed to be 
edited by hand for accuracy, but it saved my research assistant a lot of 
typing.

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl



On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Robert Dale wrote:

> On 3/2/07, Ron Joffe <rjoffe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Our office is looking for an electronic filing software.
>> 
>> We envision the software to be able to:
>> 
>> 1. Take a scanned doc (tiff)
>> 2. OCR the document
>> 3. Name it and file it appropriately.
>> 4. Optionally have a document retrieval system.
>> 
>> This (of-course) would need to be a linux suite. We are looking for
>> experiences,recommendations with existing suits or set of tools which would
>> accomplish the required sorting and filing.
>
> I was a little curious myself about the state of OCR on linux...
>
> Gentoo wiki[1] basically says open source ocr sucks, use a commercial
> solution[2].
>
> It's been awhile but you might want to get a hold of the guy[3] who
> did OCR for the postal service.  There's an open source opportunity
> waiting to happen ;)
>
> [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_do_OCR
> [2] http://www.vividata.com/index.html
> [3] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2985
>
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> Robert Dale
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