Batch Cataloging of Scanned Documents via OCR?

Posted by Cliff on Monday November 21, 2005 @02:03PM from the information-retrieval-and-processing dept.

munwin99 asks: "I am looking for some software to process a batch of images (scanned forms). We want to use Gallery to view the images, and be able to search them by 3 or 4 attributes. We want to get these attributes from the form (date, name, etc). We want it to check a section of the scanned form, read the info from that section(s), and dump the retrieved info into Gallery (using OCR / ICR). Is there any (preferably) free or open source software that can do this? Supported OSes should include either Windows, Linux or Mac OS X. Even Gallery is optional, if someone has a better suggestion."

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Hire a kid from high school by phoenix.bam! · 2005-11-21 14:55 · Score: 2, Insightful

Pay a kid $8 an hour to scan the forms and process them. You will get much better accuracy and you can put them to other uses as well. A kid from high school will cost you... $5,000 a year or something depending on how many forms you've got. Hell, the kid could do the work from home if you set up the computer post the images in an accessible way. Hire a kid and give him a future in data processing!