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    NEED: ZONE OCR ActiveX & Reliable High Speed Scanner

    I have been asked to bid on a project for a client of mine. They want to start a document management system. I would need to develop an application to store, index and search the database for the information and then display it so it can be printed, emailed, etc..

    Before I give my answer to the client, I need to know if anyone has used or know of an OCR ActiveX control that has ZONE OCR.

    For those unfamiliar with the term, I only need to OCR certain areas of a page. These areas have the employee's name and Social. I don't need to OCR the entire document since most of the information is hand written. Once I OCR the page I will have the info necessary to enter the data into a table and also rename the scanned file to the employee's name & social.

    The process I am leaning towards is to use the Zone OCR to gather the info. Once the OCR is complete, create a new record with the OCR data, rename the PDF from 200808121222.pdf to LastName First 123456789.pdf. This way even if the database is trashed, the PDF's will have the main info in the name of the file and searchable OCR at least on the first page. Of course if there is a duplicate, it would add an ''a', 'b', etc.

    If I can't find a Zone OCR ActiveX, the other alternative is to manually enter the employee's data into the table and this cannot be an option. The client has over 200,000 documents with 20 pages each they need scanned. That comes out to over 4 million pages! BTW, outside vendors are running in the 10 cent per image range. Since the paper form is an 11x17 folded in half, it is really only 2 million pages. So the quotes are in the $200,000 - $250,000 range.

    If anyone has any ideas for this project, I am all ears. Also, if anyone knows of a reliable, high speed duplex scanner, I would be thankful.
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    Barry Kucher
    http://www.411tech.org
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    Re: NEED: ZONE OCR ActiveX & Reliable High Speed Scanner

    You might look here. http://www.scanstore.com/Scanning_So...DK/default.asp I just googled "zone ocr activex" and came to this site.

    It sounds like a lot of money at 200,000 plus, but it sounds like a lot of work too. I hope they have a great scanner.
    Try this sight? http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/c...FRwzgQoddVpsmw

    Good Luck
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    Dave Mason
    [email protected]
    Skype is dave.mason46

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      Re: NEED: ZONE OCR ActiveX & Reliable High Speed Scanner

      I saw this info also when I googled it. I was looking for people with experience using Scanning ActiveX controls.
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      Barry Kucher
      http://www.411tech.org

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        #4
        Re: NEED: ZONE OCR ActiveX & Reliable High Speed Scanner

        Dr. Peter has done something like this. I think you can find it in the code archives.

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          Re: NEED: ZONE OCR ActiveX & Reliable High Speed Scanner

          I'm working on a scanning project using Dosadi's EZTwain driver (the one used by Peter Wayne in his book) and an OCR product called Transym.

          As things stand now, EZTwain's ActiveX control can't do an OCR recognition of a region of a page. (They have another product which can, but it doesn't integrate with V9 the way the ActiveX control does.) Integration of EZTwain and Transym was really straightforward.

          Spike from Dosadi told me that he was willing to add the ability to do a region OCR scan if I was willing to work with an Alpha version. He's very willing to help if and when there are any issues with his product.
          Finian

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            Re: NEED: ZONE OCR ActiveX & Reliable High Speed Scanner

            Barry,

            I can highly recommend Dave's suggestion of the Fujitsu scanner. Bought mine nearly a year ago and haven't looked back, great bit of kit.

            We use this to scan in Bills of quantities, it automatically converts them to searchable PDF's. Then I use Omnipage OCR on the PDF to read the items from the page and output this into an excel spreadsheet, which in turn when processed is imported into Alpha 5. Bit long winded and could probably automate a few more steps, but it works with pretty good results.

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              Re: NEED: ZONE OCR ActiveX & Reliable High Speed Scanner

              I too can vouch for Omnipage. It supports batch processes for groups of documents so it may be useful. I never did a huge job with thousands of docs, though.
              Bill Hanigsberg

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