[Hidden-tech] Scanner/Printer with OCR

[Zach Fried]

The CanoScan LIDE series of desktop scanners come with OCR and are priced
well under $200 but auto file naming based on OCR'd content would be a
different challenge.

For sheet fed, I like Fuji ScanSnap but not for under $200 unless you can
get by with their mobile option (haven't tried it).



On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Rich Roth <webmaster at hidden-tech.net>
wrote:

>
>
>
> I use Epson GT-S50 (a bit old now) for bulk scanning of sheet feed
> documents, the software
> with it does a good job of OCR,
> so the PDF produced have text and the files are named in sequential order
> with a fair bit
> of control of root filename.
>
> if you feed each separately you will get one PDF per document from one
> front panel (of
> scanner) button press
>
> How you pull the name is a function of the format of the text,
> I just finished scanning and loading into a database 450 biographic sheets
> and suplimental
> documents with image
>   (over 6 binders worth)
>
> I used pdftotext  to create formatted text from the pdf and the perl
> script to populate
> the database fields.
> pdftotext is open source with window, mac or linux versions)
>
> You could use a similar scheme to rename the files per whatever you needed
>
> On 4/5/2016 10:48 AM, Peter Chilton wrote:
> > I need to be able to scan a 1-page black and white document for
> archiving data sheets and then be able to print them again when needed.
> >
> > Here’s the catch… It would be great if I can use OCR to name the file
> based on section of the document.
> >
> > I can set it up technically but once it’s running it should be 1-2
> button easy.
> >
> > I have a $200 budget for the scanner/printer unit and software.
> >
> > Needs to run on a Dell 2.4ghz 64 bit, Windows 7, 4gb RAM
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > –
> > Peter Chilton
> > peter at peterchilton.com
> > 508-963-6572
> >
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