Lysander  344
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We are currently collecting info on some 18,000 people every month on paper forms. This data is then entered into an Acess database. This is taking far to long, and the data entry is very inaccurate, so we are thinking of redesigning the paper forms to allow them to be scanned in and some sort of OCR software will analyse the scanned image and produce the required data in Acess or Excel.
My problem. This is way out of my field. Does anyone know any software system that would do this for me.
TIA
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Recognized Expert Expert OmniPage is fairly popular, and it supports a wide variety of file formats.
Haven't used it, so that's about the best I can give you.
Lysander 344
Recognized Expert Contributor OmniPage is fairly popular, and it supports a wide variety of file formats.
Haven't used it, so that's about the best I can give you.
Thanks for this. We are currently looking at ABBYY Formreader, which is a lot more expensive than OmniPage. Not sure if OmniPage will interface directly with an Access database though.
bartonc 6,596
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Thanks for this. We are currently looking at ABBYY Formreader, which is a lot more expensive than OmniPage. Not sure if OmniPage will interface directly with an Access database though.
There's no real need to "interface directly". You can use an intermediate step by going to CSV first, then pull that into the DB.
Lysander 344
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There's no real need to "interface directly". You can use an intermediate step by going to CSV first, then pull that into the DB.
My problem is I have no experience at all of this type of software. I do know that the finished product will have to scan some 18,000 pages every month, handled remotely by IT illiterates and so needs to be as simple as possible to process.
Still waiting for the trial software from ABBYY (and now from Omipage Capture as well) so I can test it out.
bartonc 6,596
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My problem is I have no experience at all of this type of software. I do know that the finished product will have to scan some 18,000 pages every month, handled remotely by IT illiterates and so needs to be as simple as possible to process.
Still waiting for the trial software from ABBYY (and now from Omipage Capture as well) so I can test it out.
Fair enough. I hope one of the commercial solutions works out for you at some sort of reasonable price. Good luck.
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