Advice Needed - Very BULK O.C.R.

[IAmAllanShore]

G'day :tu:

I currently have about 10,000 pages of scanned images (TIF Format) that are all scans of emails and inter-office memos. I would prefer not to have to go "out-of-house" to have a 3rd party do all of the OCR work, and found a few free OCR programs that performed admirably, but they did not have a "batch process" option.

Does anyone have any expertise in this area, or know of a bulk processor OCR program that I could buy online?

Many TIA,

-Allan :gl:

 

[yandig]

Have you looked into Adobe Acrobat Professional?

 

[mhdoc]

I use omniscan from nuance.com for this kind of work. I haven't tried 10,000 pages, but have done a couple hundred book pages (.jpg) without a problem. I just start it on my older computer and let it run for a few hours

 

[IAmAllanShore]

We have Acrobat Pro but must admit that I am deficient in all of its tricks, but thought that I could only use the OCR on .pdf files, which would be a mass conversion, no? If not, I'll look more into it.

mdhoc - I'm looking at nuance.com now, thanks for the tip.

-Allan :gl:

So figured out how to convert 1 page at a time - but I've got a few too many to do 1 at a time using Acrobat Pro... Still looking

<rep'd>

 

[yandig]

Try this link:
http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2005/10/batch_ocr_using_1.html

 

[IAmAllanShore]

That did it, you rule :tu:

-Allan :gl:

<extra thanked via $NP>

 

[yandig]

I'm glad it worked.
Thanks for the NP$