I agree with Mathew on this. Your best bet - get the manual to a place that will scan it. Then, you can use OCR. But, the OCR is imperfect. So, you're best shot - after getting the whole manual scanned in - is to ONLY have the OCR work on the text that needs updates. For Data - as your scan is graphical - you can just replace that data with updates.
In short - ONLY use the OCR on the parts of text that need changing - and leave all the rest as graphics. Although, it will still need a good bit of work - depending on how many changes they need! -K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jarvis, Matthew Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 2:02 PM > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Rafael Copquin > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 9:53 AM > > I have a client with a huge manufacturing procedures manual that needs > to be copied into Word documents. > You are talking about Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. Great for bulk loading, but don't expect anything near perfection on the accuracy part - especially if your client uses industry jargon, big words and/or charts/graphs. If your client has access to a Kinko's or similar, they could probably scan it in for you. Thanks, Matthew Jarvis _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a14071a1...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
