Hi Everyone,
I've been working on software which you feed scanned images - photos, or books or magazines (and computer screen snapshots) - and it strips out all the background, leaving just the text. This new resulting image goes into your OCR software. The result is more accurate OCR processing.
It's called Pretext and a free time-limited demo is available for Windows (it's a proper installer/uninstaller). Also, on the website you can instantly see what it does by moving the mouse over the colored magazine header:
One day it might become an IrfanView plugin.
Finally, there's the temptation to say "That's easy, I could program that", but it's actually a very complex task.
Jeremy Smith
San Fran Systems
I've been working on software which you feed scanned images - photos, or books or magazines (and computer screen snapshots) - and it strips out all the background, leaving just the text. This new resulting image goes into your OCR software. The result is more accurate OCR processing.
It's called Pretext and a free time-limited demo is available for Windows (it's a proper installer/uninstaller). Also, on the website you can instantly see what it does by moving the mouse over the colored magazine header:
One day it might become an IrfanView plugin.
Finally, there's the temptation to say "That's easy, I could program that", but it's actually a very complex task.
Jeremy Smith
San Fran Systems
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