From: Ellen K. 

In general, OCR is less reliable for numbers than for letters... depending
on the fidelity of the scanned image I wouldn't be surprised if it mixes up
5 and 6 or 6 and 8 or 8 and 9.

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:26:46 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message
:

>"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
>news:MPG.1aa4cf27e87d417698bf95{at}news.barkto.com...
>> > I haven't used Paperport software since the original roll scanners on
>Win 95.
>> > They sold the software to another publisher?  How solid is it?
>>
>> I use it a lot for keeping my PDF files straight (either downloaded or
>> created in  WordPerfect). Just in website articles I have about 3/4 gig,
>> all very easy to find.
>
>I was actually today looking into PaperPort. I was hoping to find a demo
>version but didn't (at least yet - I almost died after watching that stupid
>flash "demonstration" stuff and had to take a break), so
maybe you could
>answer one question: we have a bunch of contracts on paper that we'd now
>like to scan (yes I know, how about some planning ahead before there are
>15.000 contracts ) and store in a server. It would be alright
to have the
>contract number as a file name, and we've already got a big scanner in which
>we can just pile the paper in and it will scan one page as one image (I
>think it can do pdf as well but haven't gotten that far yet).
>
>So: is PaperPort capable of finding a number (8 digits mostly) from a
>(almost) fixed point in a scanned image or pdf file, and then use it as file
>name, in a batch mode? It seems that we could do it one by one, but that's a
>definite no-no as there are roughly 15.000 pages of this stuff...
>
>Any info appreciated.
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
>(my backup plan is to take a vacation and shout just as I'm heading out the
>door: "oh and there are a few documents on my desk that need scanning, would
>you mind doing it while I'm gone, thanks!" to some poor sob who happens to
>be near )
>

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