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Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by JohnnyRTFM, Nov 7, 2001.

  1. JohnnyRTFM Gems: 10/31
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    Remove all ads!
    Here's the deal. A co-worker of mine has a monstrous economics assignment in which he has to forecast stock prices for 24 stocks using regression analysis over ten years. He has hard copies of all the required data but the task of entering this info manually into spreadsheets is daunting to say the least. Though I have never heard of such a thing, he insists there exists software that can scan text into text rather than into an image. Have any of you heard of such a thing?
     
    JohnnyRTFM, Nov 7, 2001
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    No I've never heard of a program like that. Even if there was one I dont see how it would work.
     
    Archer14, Nov 7, 2001
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    http://www.sakhr.com/products/OCR.htm

    EDITED HERE TO CAPSTONE: I am aware of that, but the link tells how OCR works. It was what both of them were curious about. wasn't it?

    EDITED AGAIN: Here is what your friend might look for. If he needs OCR. http://www.ocr.com/

    EDITED AGAIN AGAIN: Sorry Capstone it has been edited away. It was a mistake :p

    [This message has been edited by Nobleman (edited November 07, 2001).]
     
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    [​IMG] Heh. I doubt he needs Arabic character recognition. Anyway, I was under the impression that most scanners nowadays included OCR in their software. I could be wrong on this, as I'm too lazy to research, but what your friend said is definitely true: there are programs to do this, and not too hard to find either. Check the scanner software first before you bother spending money for such stuff though.

    EDIT: Thanks, Noble. Could you make me look worse? :p Hey, and it's free too. Very good Noble.

    [This message has been edited by Capstone (edited November 07, 2001).]
     
    Capstone, Nov 7, 2001
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    I had a program which could scan music notes and play them once :p.
     
    Mollusken, Nov 7, 2001
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    Thanks all for your help. A quick search at the major download sites - now that I knew what I was looking for - yielded me more than enough results.
     
    JohnnyRTFM, Nov 7, 2001
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    I've even seen an ad for one that could scan tables and spreadsheets and enable you to edit them in Excel, heh. It was in PCMag but quite some time ago.
     
    Taluntain, Nov 7, 2001
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    I do not know if you have it in stores, JohnnyRTFM, but the best product for text scanning and conversion is the ABBYY FineReader 7.0. It can convert to Word, Excel, Image; group and regroup blocks of scanned information; spellcheck the scanned text and so on... I have seen the english version of it, but there is a SLIGHT chance that this software has been developped only for CIS.
     
    Modjahed, Nov 8, 2001
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