Re: OCR Code

Hi. "OCR" stands for 'Optical Character Recognition' and is a method for converting a text *image* into machine-readable text (TIFF to ASCII, for example). What exactly are you trying to do with OCR?

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Allolex

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Re: Re: OCR Code by Anonymous Monk on Dec 11, 2003 at 19:00 UTC
Hi Allolex, for example, I want to convert below number into OCR font. 000000378374949304847374074740008484 We can print PDF file and pass that printed page through OCR reader then it will read this number. Let me know you need anything else. Thanks Tejas	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: OCR Code by allolex (Curate) on Dec 11, 2003 at 20:27 UTC
(Why did someone waste her/his time downvoting the parent? His reply was fine.) I think I get it now. sauoq seems to have gotten right to the heart of the matter. You're generating a PDF file that is supposed to have a code in a special font designed to be read by OCR systems. (I parsed your mentioning of "OCR code" as "the source code for a program that does OCR".) I guess it's just a question of you finding out how to change the font in your output, really. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about that, but I felt you deserved at least a response. -- Allolex	[reply] [d/l]