I have to disclaim that I am a reseller and business partner with Motion
Computing, and that is why I omitted the name brand in my earlier post.
You can find additional information at www.motioncomputing.com.
I have also worked with the voice recognition module that is part of
Microsoft Office, and found it to be very accurate in taking dictation,
requiring minimal corrections.
-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Belrose, Sharon
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:29 PM
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Subject: Re: electronic imaging question
I have Cerebral Palsy and can only use one hand. Could you tell me where you
found this Pen Tablet PC?
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Brent Reid
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [RM] electronic imaging question
One project I did for a municipality 6 years ago, used OCR and ICR to read
handwritten forms when they were scanned.
The department was able to go from 12 typists entering the information into
the computer to 4 QA people whose job it was to correct any errors the
software made trying to read the handwriting.
The ROI for the project was 4 months.
In other words, OCR and ICR kick butt - and that was 6 years ago.
I now use a Pen Tablet PC that reads my handwriting and/or printing as I
write on the screen. It uses heuristics to learn patterns so that it not
only recognizes the letters, but it compares the letter patterns and word
patterns to a database to increase the accuracy of the conversion. As I
write, it changes my scribbling into text that is pasted into the document
or email I'm writing.
I've watched it translate one scribbled word as tree, but when I wrote the
next two words, it changed tree to there (which was correct).
It is truly amazing technology.
-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Warren Harris
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:02 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: electronic imaging question
Guess I'm full of questions today. Is OCR to the point where it is very
reliable....or, is it still as I used to hear more of a problem than a
help? Apparently it works well for some of you because you keep
mentioning it.
Gus Harris
Univ. of West FL
Pensacola, FL
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-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of John Annunziello
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:42 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [RM] electronic imaging question
Hi Bill.
Bill said: "We are revising our standard to a standard 200 dpi with
even
lower dpi
permitted on high quality text documents."
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said high quality text
documents. Without a doubt you could probably get away with OCR'ing the
document at this resolution. However, in many cases when you are not
working with originals, the quality may not be there. I believe this is
where you should use 300 dpi because it increases the performance of the
OCR capability. When we went through our testing, we found that on many
documents the additional 100 dpi increased the quality of the OCR'ing by
up to 5% better resolution. This was especially true when the original
was a faxed copy.
Bandwidth and storage space should always be taken into account, but the
ability for the client to effectively search and find the document
should
override this process.
John Annunziello
Manager, Records and Information
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
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