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OCR data defaults to columns

Jul 27, 2012 12:49 PM

Categories: Windows Tags: #problem #ocr #scan #acrobat_10_pro

I have price sheets I scan into a file for OCR.

product "a" $15.95

product "b" $21.00

etc.

product "s" $32.95

The resulting document defaults to selecting columns of text (selection point like [procuct "b"] to bottom [product "s"] to top [$15.00, $21.00...] to the bottom of the page instead of interpreting data as a row (left to right).

Is there a means of forcing the OCR engine to regognize the text as rows of data instead of columns of data?

699 Views 4 Replies Latest reply: A1bertN, Feb 2, 2013 10:19 PM

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1. ArchivistGuy,

Aug 31, 2012 5:39 AM in reply to David78737

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Did you ever figure this out? I'm having a similar issue.

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2. David78737,

Aug 31, 2012 5:53 AM in reply to ArchivistGuy

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I have not rec'd any comments or help. 8/31/2012

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3. CtDave,

Aug 31, 2012 7:44 AM in reply to David78737

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Is there a means of forcing the OCR engine to regognize the text as rows of data instead of columns of data?

With consumer oriented OCR? No.
With higher end desktop or better still server products? Yes (zones).
The default workflows may need some tweaking.

Be well...

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4. A1bertN,

Feb 2, 2013 10:19 PM in reply to David78737

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I tried to fake out Acrobat Pro XI by seeing if I could save the PDF to HTML and extract my tables. That did not work.

Saving to MS Excel doesn't work directly either. I had held out hope I could copy the tabular matter fron Excel into Word and preserve the cells' contents. No, when you paste from Excel to Word you still get stuck with columns.

Without this capability, I don't see much reason to upgrade from version 9 for what I need to do.

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