Welcome to the final 31st of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Wow, we actually did it. 31 relatively useful applications in 31 days developed with DotImage. This web application generates a searchable PDF from any standard image such as a multipage TIFF or JPEG.  The searchable PDF is ...

Welcome to the 22nd of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released.                     This application is a great ...

Welcome to the 15th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released. One of the things that I like about having an OCR engine at my fingertips is the ability to just throw it ...

Welcome to the 7th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released. Just in time for the Scribd ''Most Interesting Hard Drive Contest'', here's a free application that can scan ...

   Welcome to the sixth of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released. This app is a frivolous way to solve the general problem ''how do I detect and act on the content ...

I am using the GlyphReader  OCR engine - my questions is: can the ocr engine report back to me the rotation of a page. The engine/encoder correctly rotates the page during output to PDF if I set the appropriate property on the PDF encoder - but I want some method to rotate a page as it is scanned in - my plan is to peform some quick ocr on a ...

Like the subject says, I'm trying to convert multipage TIFFs into searchable PDF's using the Expervision OCR engine.  I tried the same code used in the GlyphReader example, but it only converts the first page of the TIFF.  In other words, I get a single-page searchable PDF containing only the first image in the PDF.  So is there a ...

Ryan, There are some demos included with the SDK that should get you started.  However these demos do not recognize an area of the image.  Take a look at the Recognize methd in the OcrEngine object.  It lets you pass in a rectangular bounds to indicate the area you wish to OCR.  It returns an OcrPage element. If you ...

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I have an application that allows the user to process several Tiff images - ocr, save, select next image, ocr, save and so on. My question is, would you  recommend opening a single global instance of the ocrengine that is used to process all the images (assuming that only one thread is going to use the engine) and close it down when app ...