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brotherS:
Paperport/Omnipage are great, but try out eCopy desktop.  Much simpler to use, and cheaper!!!

http://www.scanguru.com/e107_plugins/links_page/links.php?cat.2
-sboals (February 06, 2007, 11:53 PM)
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I couldn't find a price there, how much is it?

Since when do you use it and how often do you use it?

rjbull:
what I need is something that can read and convert tens of thousands of handwritten pages [from many different hands, in many different layouts] into editable and searchable text.)
-cranioscopical (January 19, 2007, 05:41 PM)
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cranioscopical,

That seems to be what Evernote Plus ($39.95) claims to do...

sboals:


Hi dc'ers,

I'd like to try implement something close to a paperless office, what I'd like to do is:
1. Scan all paper documents received at home (bank statements, letters,...)
2. Use OCR if applicable (maybe, I'm not sure whether it's a good thing to do at the moment)
3. Store the scanned document in the right format (multi-page TIFF, multi-page PDF, other?)
4. Use a clever document storage (filesystem with nice/clean directory structure, dedicated database/revision management system,...)

Interesting user story: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/11/02/personal_document_management.html

Possible software I've seen so far:
PDFFactory : http://www.fineprint.com/products/pdffactory/index.html ($49.95 or $99.95 for the pro version)
ABBY Fineprint Reader Pro: http://www.abbyy.com/finereader8/?param=44890 (~$160)
Perforce (see article by Jason Hunter referenced above) : http://www.perforce.com/ (free version available, limited to 2 clients)

Any comments on this? Has anyone set up a similar system?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers  /jerome

-jeromg (January 13, 2007, 09:29 AM)
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Paperport is great for desktop document management, but I would also recommend eCopy desktop.  Very powerful tool, with a lot of neat options. 

Check out the article at http://www.scanguru.com on the levels of Document Management.

Hi dc'ers,

I'd like to try implement something close to a paperless office, what I'd like to do is:
1. Scan all paper documents received at home (bank statements, letters,...)
2. Use OCR if applicable (maybe, I'm not sure whether it's a good thing to do at the moment)
3. Store the scanned document in the right format (multi-page TIFF, multi-page PDF, other?)
4. Use a clever document storage (filesystem with nice/clean directory structure, dedicated database/revision management system,...)

Interesting user story: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/11/02/personal_document_management.html

Possible software I've seen so far:
PDFFactory : http://www.fineprint.com/products/pdffactory/index.html ($49.95 or $99.95 for the pro version)
ABBY Fineprint Reader Pro: http://www.abbyy.com/finereader8/?param=44890 (~$160)
Perforce (see article by Jason Hunter referenced above) : http://www.perforce.com/ (free version available, limited to 2 clients)

Any comments on this? Has anyone set up a similar system?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers  /jerome

-jeromg (January 13, 2007, 09:29 AM)
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cranioscopical:
what I need is something that can read and convert tens of thousands of handwritten pages [from many different hands, in many different layouts] into editable and searchable text.)
-cranioscopical (January 19, 2007, 05:41 PM)
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rjbull:  cranioscopical,

That seems to be what Evernote Plus ($39.95) claims to do...
-rjbull (February 07, 2007, 08:56 AM)
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Thanks for the reply.
I'll look into it some more.  It wouldn't the last time I looked at it, but that was a while back.
The trouble is, I'll have 100 documents at a time, each with unique handwriting.  I've yet to see the software that can handle it, outside of HUGELY expensive applications (and they're not perfect).

mwb1100:
what I need is something that can read and convert tens of thousands of handwritten pages [from many different hands, in many different layouts] into editable and searchable text.)
-cranioscopical (January 19, 2007, 05:41 PM)
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This seems like it might be a task for the "Amazon Mechanical Turk" (http://requester.mturk.com/mturk/welcome).

You can scan the documents into image files, then create a bunch of 'HITs' (Human Interface Tasks) to have someone transcribe the documents.  You indicate how much you'll pay per task, and if someone chooses to do the work, Amazon pays them the agreed amount out of your account (taking their cut, of course) once the work is verified.  I'm not sure how much you'd have to pay per page to get people interested, but I believe it costs nothing to set the tasks up (though you do have to place some funds in an account that will be used to pay any tasks that are completed).

When I browsed through the lists of available tasks, many of them are asking to identify images - these seem to pay about 5-10 cents for identifying a small set of images.

In reality, I think you might not have much success, but I think it would be an interesting experiment to try out for a couple dozen pages.  If you do this, please let us know how it goes.

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