[Hidden-tech] Scanner/Printer with OCR

[Chris Hart, MyMacTech.com]

I don't think any either Neat Scanner of Fujitsu ScanSnap -- among the most popular document scanners with OCR -- name the file based on the content.  Even though they do OCR, they don't interpret the content in order to come up with a file name.  They simply provide searchable output files.  And I'm not aware of any scanning solution that is any different in this regard.

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> On Apr 5, 2016, at 6:23 PM, Donald M Stevens <dstevens at tryandfindit.com> wrote:
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> What was that commercial on t.v. all the time a while ago?
> Forget the name, but this was one of those portable scanners that indexed your docs for you.... but I believe there was a manual process to enter the information
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> Thanks!
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> From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Rich Roth
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 11:30 AM
> To: Peter Chilton <peter at peterchilton.com>; Hidden-Tech Tech <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Scanner/Printer with OCR
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> 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.
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> if you feed each separately you will get one PDF per document from one front panel (of
> scanner) button press
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> 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)
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> 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)
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> You could use a similar scheme to rename the files per whatever you needed
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> 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.
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>> Here’s the catch… It would be great if I can use OCR to name the file based on section of the document.
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>> I can set it up technically but once it’s running it should be 1-2 button easy.
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>> I have a $200 budget for the scanner/printer unit and software.
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>> Needs to run on a Dell 2.4ghz 64 bit, Windows 7, 4gb RAM
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>> Any ideas?
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>> Peter Chilton
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