Tiff to Text
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Batch OCR Tif Images to Text Files along with Searchable Tif
images Tiff to Text is designed to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
in a batch process. The program utilizes the OCR engine from Nuance
(Owners of OMNI Page - formally ScanSoft) that is included with
Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI).
With Tiff to Text the user has the option of processing all of the tif
images in a file folder as well as tif images in all subfolders. The
output will be a matching file folder structure with either the tif
image along with a matching text file created from the OCR or just the
text file.
Tiff to Text is easy to setup as the user only has to enter the input
folder and output folder along with some simple choices.
One reviewer wrote
The software was designed specifically to perform the "bulk" Optical
Character Recognition. It's extremely easy to install and operate:
simply point where the source files are and "tell" the program what
needs to be done.
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Required Setup information:
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Include Sub Directories – this will OCR all the
tif images in the Sub Directories of the root
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Duplicate Folder Structure – this makes a
matching output file folder hierarchy of the OCR’d images, if not selected
all output files will be placed in the output root.
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Display Status – allows the user to see
what file is being OCR’d
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Output Text File Only – just creates a matching
text file from the OCR contents
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Delete Original Tiff image – Deletes the file
that was processed
Advanced Options:
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Standard Output – Normal OCR text file
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Upper Case – All of the OCR text is converted to
Upper Case
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Lower Case - All of the OCR text is converted to
Lower Case
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Strict ASCII – Only outputs the OCR text that
contains character codes between 0 – 127
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Printable ASCII – Only outputs the OCR text that
contains character codes 10, (line feed), 13 (Carriage Return) and codes 32
to 126
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Custom - the user can input a string of
character codes to be returned from the OCR such as 10, 13, 48-57 which
would just output the numbers contained within the tif image.
Program uses:
This program is designed to produce high quality OCR
text files from tif images for research purposes. It is ideal for law firms that
receive CD’s of tif images in the discovery process. Until now law firms
needed expensive software to get high quality OCR output done in a batch
process. That has changed with Tiff to Text costing less than what it costs to
convert a CD of discovery documents to a text format.
With Tiff to Text if discovery documents arrive on a
CD the user just copies the files to a folder on their hard drive, selects an
output folder and lets the software do it's job.
An average CD contains up to
10,000 images and they can be processed at an average of 900 pages per hour.
This average was calculated on typical single page discovery document in a G4
tiff format. The processor was a 2.4 mhz Pentium 4 with 512 of memory. Ideally
the process will be run at night when the PC is not being used for another
process as the OCR engine consumes most of the processing power of the PC.
If the discovery documents arrive as paper files the
user can use the scan to file option on their copier and have the output tif
images OCR'd.
Other uses for this product are all related to research projects where the
quality of OCR text is important but where the formatting is not.
Scanning Images:
This program does not include scanning software. It
only processes images after they have been scanned. It assumes the images were
created with a copier that scans to a file folder on a network such as those
manufactured by Canon, Ricoh, Xerox, Sharp, HP, Kyocera, Konica, Toshiba,
Brother, Lanier, Savin, Gestetner, Panasonic, HP, Oce, Kodak or other
that has the ability to scan to a file folder on a network. It also processes
tif images that were received in the discovery process or were batch scanned by
other software.
Requirements: Microsoft Office Document
Imaging - Windows OS,
Microsoft XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
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Tiff to Text III
Tiff to Text III has all the functionality of Tiff to
Text with the added capability of monitoring a file folder hierarchy and
allowing the user to select Searchable Tif, Txt or PDF output. The PDF
output will contain the text on the page, but will not be aligned with
the words. Making searching for pages acceptable, but not for
searching the words on the open page.
Tiff Due Diligence
Tiff to Text III comes packaged with "Tiff Due Diligence" which is a
simple to use program that tests for txt and PDF files that have the
same name as Tiff images. When doing hundreds of thousands or millions
of pages there is bound to be a corrupt tiff image that causes an OCR
engine to fail. Finding which one can be time consuming and difficult.
With Tiff Due Diligence the user enters an input folder (the folder that
contains the tiff images) and an output folder (where the processed
files should reside). The software will create a log of missing files
and copy the original to a Failed File folder for reprocessing manually.
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