The Problem with OCR

by Traverse Legal, reviewed by Enrico Schaefer - November 9, 2005 - Uncategorized

Rob Hyndman at the robhyndman.com blog has this comment to my post about my favorite technology tool, Copernic. Rob notes:

      "Copernic has changed everything for me, but I’ve found it to be especially powerful when used in conjunction with OCR’d documents. I don’t bother cleaning them up – I just drop pdfs into a watch folder and then file the Word files that are produced. The OCR is so accurate in the latest gen of software that that is all it takes. Puts Copernic on steroids …"

Rob makes a great point. OCR documents are completely searchable, my problem has been that OCR document sizes are so large that I have difficulty transmitting them to clients, experts and others. I use LeapFile for large file transfers, but the upload download time is still significant. Perhaps I am saving my OCR files with the wrong dpi. I wonder if anyone else has this problem?

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