Tag Archives for optical character recognition
Nuance OmniPage 18
Nuance OmniPage is the best known name in ‘optical character recognition’ (OCR), the process of converting scanned or photographed pages into editable text documents of the type used by word processors. Version 18 of the program shows the level of accuracy and flexibility that’s now been reached. How it worksThe program can perform OCR from…
Plustek OpticBook 4800
Plustek’s OpticBook 4800 offers a specialist angle to the desktop scanner market. Though it’s effectively a fairly standard-sized flatbed, the difference is that the 4800 is optimised for scanning books. To do this, it features a 2mm book edge as well as a lid whose height is easily adjustable, enabling you to produce optimum results…
Xerox DocuMate 4440
Not all scanners are big flatbed machines. Office scanners, designed primarily for archiving and turning paper documents into editable text files using optical character recognition (OCR), are usually sheet-feed devices, which scan more quickly and are easier to load and use. Xerox’s DocuMate 4440 is of this second type and offers fully duplex scanning, in…
Fujitsu – ScanSnap S1100
As long as printed paper continues to dominate our lives, we’ll need document scanners. Fujitsu first introduced its ScanSnap range of portable colour scanners in 2003, and the S1100 is the smallest and lightest member of the family. Portable and host-poweredAimed at mobile users, the tiny S1100 isn’t much bigger than some laptop battery packs,…