Brainstorming on scanning

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Richard Kreiss wrote:

> Bob, should I try my Dragon Naturally speaking 11.0 with Printwizard 4?

Sure!
 
> Next question, will the scanning option create a csv file?
> 
> Here's a tough one, can the scan program be set up to use an overlay to pull
> the information from a form and then scan it to a CSV file?
> 
> Something like this can make it easy to get data into filepro from printed
> forms. 

We have not yet tied into any Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine, 
and that would be required in order to do what you describe. So no.

I have, however, done some initial work on a barcode recognition engine, 
which opens up some interesting possibilities.

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