Microsoft Office Character Recognition. Really?
I finally got motivated to re-live my bicycle trip. Since MS Office 2010 supposedly supports converting text in a scanned image to editable ASCII text, I installed on of the 3 licenses for it on my new laptop. My hope was that I could scan the hand printed pages of my journal from the trip.
Ha.
As nearly as I can tell, scanning a picture from my HP All-in-One, into MS OneNote, can't correctly find a single letter in the image. If the freaking things had teeth, they'd bite. I can understand that poorly formed characters, or characters in contanct, might not be recognized. OneNote, as best as I can tell from scanning, adjusting thresholds, etc., can't find a single, free-standing "L".
Hey Microsoft! Have you got a product that works properly? For that matter, the IRIS software that came with the HP printer, produces gibberish as well. Dammit Bones, I'm an Engineer, not a Doctor. My hand-printed notes are absolutely readable.
I really don't want to have to re-type every character of my journal.
Anyone have something that actually works, to parse text from scanned hand-printing on paper?
Ha.
As nearly as I can tell, scanning a picture from my HP All-in-One, into MS OneNote, can't correctly find a single letter in the image. If the freaking things had teeth, they'd bite. I can understand that poorly formed characters, or characters in contanct, might not be recognized. OneNote, as best as I can tell from scanning, adjusting thresholds, etc., can't find a single, free-standing "L".
Hey Microsoft! Have you got a product that works properly? For that matter, the IRIS software that came with the HP printer, produces gibberish as well. Dammit Bones, I'm an Engineer, not a Doctor. My hand-printed notes are absolutely readable.
I really don't want to have to re-type every character of my journal.
Anyone have something that actually works, to parse text from scanned hand-printing on paper?