Ander, Thank you for multiple suggestions. I will look into these.
Erica *Erica Findley (she/her)* *Systems & Metadata Librarian* *x80591* Multnomah County Library Isom Operations Center: Thu 8 am - 5 pm, Fri 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm Teleworking: Mon - Wed 8 am - 5 pm, Fri 8 am - 12 pm multcolib.org <http://www.multcolib.org/> My pronouns are she/her/hers On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 7:35 AM ander kierig < 000000c0e12c3a34-dmarc-requ...@lists.clir.org> wrote: > External Sender - Be Suspicious of Attachments, Links, and Requests for > Payment or Login Information. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Erica: > > I've used Paperwork (https://openpaper.work/en/) in the past with good > results. It's open source and runs on Linux and Windows. If you'd be > interested in running a web application you might give some of these > options a look (https://github.com/kba/awesome-ocr#ocr-gui) or maybe > even look into a document management web application > ( > https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#document-management) > > though the later might be overkill for your use case. > > Finally, if you're running a Mac somewhere and have money to spend, I > cannot overstate how much I love DevonThink > (https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink) which has a server > version and uses ABBYY on the backend. My quick test this morning > suggests it doesn't have the issue you're describing. > > best, > > ak > > -- > ander kierig > Web Application Developer > University of Minnesota Libraries > [lib.umn.edu](https://www.lib.umn.edu) > they/them > > On 2022-08-05 at 18:12 (-0500) Erica FINDLEY wrote: > > > All, > > > > ABBYY has been a favorite program of mine for transforming batches of > > TIFF > > files into a PDF and extracting the text. > > > > However, I have recently run into this known issue > > < > https://support.abbyy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013874239-Each-page-is-duplicated-with-the-thumbnail-image-while-converting-TIFF-to-PDF-in-FineReader > >even > > though each TIFF file is the same resolution. > > > > I opened a support ticket with ABBYY and their proposed resolution is > > for > > me to convert to another format (jpg) then to pdf. I do not like this > > for > > two reasons 1)it is time and resource consuming to do two > > transformations > > and 2) there is some image quality loss when doing this. > > > > > > This leaves me with two questions: > > > > 1. Has anyone been able to find a better workaround for this issue? > > > > 2. Does anyone have recommendations for another GUI based OCR program? > > My > > quick research is pointing to Tesseract, but since I work with > > volunteers > > I'd prefer a GUI based solution. > > > > Thanks! > > > > *Erica Findley (she/her)* > > *Systems & Metadata Librarian* > > *x80591* > > Multnomah County Library > > Isom Operations Center: Thu 8 am - 5 pm, Fri 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm > > Teleworking: Mon - Wed 8 am - 5 pm, Fri 8 am - 12 pm > > multcolib.org <http://www.multcolib.org/> > > My pronouns are she/her/hers > >
