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Re: OCR

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On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:22:37 +1000
"Stephen Grant Brown" <steve.brown_nbn@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Hi All,
> What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given
> immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely

If you mean general retail receipts, are you sure this is a practical
proposition?

I have to look closely at various receipts I get in order to decipher
dates and prices, often with the printed characters broken, and
sometimes made with a dodgy printer.

I keep a web-accessible database of 'important' receipts, but I just
scan them to greyscale PNG and manually type in the goods, date,
supplier and category. Even then, I sometimes have to tweak the scan
parameters to get a (human-)legible result.

I have seen a purpose-made business card scanner, which produced what I
thought were amazing results about ten years ago, particularly given the
infinite layout possibilities of cards. But it was seeing brand-new
cards, with high quality commercial printing, not some wrinkled scrap
of paper from an old thermal dot matrix printer, with the
'time-for-a-new-roll' red stripe down the middle.

Best of luck.

-- 
Joe

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OCR "Stephen Grant Brown" <steve.brown_nbn@iinet.net.au> - 2017-08-23 00:40 +0200
  Re: OCR Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-08-23 01:10 +0200
    Re: OCR MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2017-08-23 06:40 +0200
  Re: OCR Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2017-08-23 04:10 +0200
  Re: OCR Jerome Flesch <jflesch@gmail.com> - 2017-08-23 08:30 +0200
    Re: OCR Jerome Flesch <jflesch@gmail.com> - 2017-08-23 09:30 +0200
      Re : Re: OCR MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2017-08-23 10:00 +0200
    Re: OCR MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2017-08-23 10:20 +0200
  Re: OCR Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-08-23 10:00 +0200
    Re : Re: OCR MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2017-08-23 10:00 +0200
    Re: OCR Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2017-08-23 10:20 +0200

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