Hi,
I have "combined captured text" enabled for the still OCR block recognizer. Is it possible to combined captured text across multiple photos? That is:
Imagine that I want to OCR the text from 10 pages of a book. Would the best method be to save as a PDF in lieu of images, so that you can OCR all the text within one OCR "session"? (I actually tried this with my scanning app, but when I export the PDF to Pleco, for some reason Pleco couldn't open the file).
Thanks!
Update: I'm using TurboScan for the PDF scanning. When selecting "Send to", PDF files will open in Reader. For whatever reason Reader did not recognize any text in the PDF. I saved the file to Dropbox, then selected to open it via Still OCR, which worked perfectly. Would it possible in a future release to have a setting that would allow me to default whether incoming PDFs open in Reader or still OCR? This would allow me to send directly from the scanning app to Pleco OCR, cutting out the intermediate step of saving to Dropbox or iCloud, then opening the PDF from within still OCR.
I have "combined captured text" enabled for the still OCR block recognizer. Is it possible to combined captured text across multiple photos? That is:
- Select to open image #1 from photo library.
- [Block image OCR executes]
- Select to open image #2 from photo library.
- [Block image OCR executes --> appends text from image #2 to text from image #1]
Imagine that I want to OCR the text from 10 pages of a book. Would the best method be to save as a PDF in lieu of images, so that you can OCR all the text within one OCR "session"? (I actually tried this with my scanning app, but when I export the PDF to Pleco, for some reason Pleco couldn't open the file).
Thanks!
Update: I'm using TurboScan for the PDF scanning. When selecting "Send to", PDF files will open in Reader. For whatever reason Reader did not recognize any text in the PDF. I saved the file to Dropbox, then selected to open it via Still OCR, which worked perfectly. Would it possible in a future release to have a setting that would allow me to default whether incoming PDFs open in Reader or still OCR? This would allow me to send directly from the scanning app to Pleco OCR, cutting out the intermediate step of saving to Dropbox or iCloud, then opening the PDF from within still OCR.
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