Comments on: Why Killing Processes may be Hurting You and What to Do About it

By: Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher)

Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:08:19 +0000

Mike,

I feel your pain. It may be worth looking at the Omnipage SDK before you embark on a journey of programming something similar to mine. Since making a program like mine might take you a year it’s worth spending even two months learning the SDK! Keep me updated.

By: mike hibbard

mike hibbard — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:36:38 +0000

Greg,

As someone who isn’t looking forward to a similar journey with omnipage (50,000 multi page image only pdfs to ocr with Omnipage15) I would be very appreciative of your working method.

Regards

Mike

By: Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher)

Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:13:15 +0000

Boz, I believe I tried the Finereader and it almost worked out but still was crashing and bugging out.

Ah well, I finally got Omnipage 15 running indefinately now through an eleborate system of GUI automation, Python, and various DOS process killing utilities It took a year of identifying every possible way it could fail and expecting it, but we’re good now. I’ll have to make a post about that sometime.

By: boz

boz — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:11:33 +0000

Abbyy Finereader has a quality OCR engine; PDF image support is somewhat iffy… Your mileage will vary based on the quality of your scans , the consistency thereof, and the much time / effort you spend in templating them such that the ocr engine can make better guesses.

By: Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher)

Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 05:39:00 +0000

Paul,

Thanks for the very informative comment. I’m surprised that there’s another “Omnipage Killer” out there but I guess I shouldn’t be. I’ll definately look into your suggestions if I get that frusterated with Omnipage, life is good after I started to ask it nicely to close, perhaps that was the final issue …