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limey · 07-21-2015, 01:05 PM

I use OCR software regularly to turn a text supplied to me as an image or pdf into an editable document as the first stage of my translation process. The software has improved dramatically in recent years with regard to printed text, being far more accurate than it used to be and able to deal with, for example, a printed document copied at a slant, or to reproduce tables. What it fails at is handwriting - there are too many variables.
I think footsie's idea of a typist is your best bet, to be honest. Checking and correcting a document that has been poorly picked up by OCR is teh debbil.
Maybe what you want is speech recognition software?? You read your texts aloud and the software produces a typed text. I believe that speech recognition software is pretty good at learning your little ways ...

07-21-2015, 01:05 PM	#3
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	I use OCR software regularly to turn a text supplied to me as an image or pdf into an editable document as the first stage of my translation process. The software has improved dramatically in recent years with regard to printed text, being far more accurate than it used to be and able to deal with, for example, a printed document copied at a slant, or to reproduce tables. What it fails at is handwriting - there are too many variables. I think footsie's idea of a typist is your best bet, to be honest. Checking and correcting a document that has been poorly picked up by OCR is teh debbil. Maybe what you want is speech recognition software?? You read your texts aloud and the software produces a typed text. I believe that speech recognition software is pretty good at learning your little ways ... __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of Last edited by limey; 07-21-2015 at 01:07 PM. Reason: I had an idea!