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The thing you're asking to do is, as you already know, OCR.


Admittedly it's been 10 years or more since I played with OCR, but has the software/hardware improved enough to be actually useful?

When I was trying it, they were bragging about 99% accuracy. That's all well and good, but on a full text page that amounts to about 40 errors I'd have to find and correct. It was a tossup whether it was easier to just type the document myself or scan it in and then spend 10 minutes fixing it. Add in the fact that it would try and divide the page up into frames based on the layout of the original document (all I wanted was just the plain text, conveniently paragraphed) and it just wasn't worth the trouble.

I take it things are better now?

tanstaafl.
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