CR 8.5 / 10 input to OCR systems

[benaround]

We are using CR 8.5 and 10 to output a file so that it can go into a OCR (old crappy whatever) optical car reader system.

The input file cannot have "hard" returns nad be of some text format. I ahve tried .txt files / format, .RIF and others.

Anyone ahve any experience in this area?

 

[IdoMillet]

Please clarify. OCR is an optical process whereby you feed the image (physical page or scanned image) of the report, yet you are describing something that sounds more like feeding an input file.

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- Ido

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[synapsevampire]

Ido: There are OCR (Optical Character Recognition) systems which can read from files as well.

AS they became a bit more sophisticated, OCR scanners would dump to an OCR file and then a secondary process would read in the OCR file, so there were processes wherein you could output to a file format, and then use this primitive technology to read in the file to some proprietary system.

I considered addressing this requirement, but I would probably do so with a secondary process which uses a Universal GREP type program to clean them up.

I fear Crystal doesn't allow for enough flexibility in it's export for this.

-k

 

[IdoMillet]

I'm still not clear on this scenario. Since the text is available as text (in the database or in Crystal), why do you need to go through a process of "recognizing" it?

In any case, can you add more details to the requirement of "be of some text format..."

Cheers,
- Ido

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[synapsevampire]

Ido: I assume that it's a proprietary system that reads files into a process, and probably some information is spicked up for a database for instant retrieval.

The reason I suspect this is they mentioned Crappy Old, which is how it was once done, back when we did this sort of thing whilst swingin' from the trees

-k

 

[benaround]

I solved the problem with CR 10. Briefly, CR 10 in exporting a text file will ask for how long the line is for the report.

This format seem to work, so problem solved.

 

[IdoMillet]

Thanks for reminding me, -K with the opposing thumb... )

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