OT: OCR / PDF Parsing

[Jose Lerebours]

Will look at Adobe - found this:

adobe.io/apis/documentcloud/dcsdk


if not for this particular problem, there may be something of value here!


Thanks,



On 1/12/22 8:50 PM, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> Your results will depend on the quality of your OCR library and the 
> quality (mainly dot density) of the scan-to-PDF.
>
> Try Adobe Acrobat (not Reader). It can take an image-only PDF and OCR 
> it with good accuracy. Then you can Save As it to a new PDF, and/or 
> export it to plain text (or other formats).
>
> I don't know about programmability.
>
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2022, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:
>
>> I have an GSA that wants data extracted from PDF documents, most of 
>> which are scanned
>> documents saved as PDF; which in essence makes them images saved as PDF.
>>
>> I have written code in PHP to save the PDF to PNG and extract TEXT 
>> from PNG but this is not proving
>> to be reliable since lots of characters are read wrong or not read at 
>> all.
>>
>> It is like pulling teeth, I want this done but do not ask me to get 
>> you "true" PDFs, the scanned
>> documents is all I can get ... type of scenario.
>>
>> So, my question is: is anyone here successfully extracting data from 
>> scanned documents and if so,
>> what are you using?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jose Lerebours
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-- 
Jose Lerebours
954-559-7186
https://www.asisuites.com
Accounting - Retail - Wholesale - Distribution
Manufacturing - Warehousing - Transportation - eCommerce - Web Development