Ocr With a Smile!: An Operator's Guide to Optical Character Recognition

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Summary: Great Reference!
Review: Ross writes directly and engagingly, providing a multitude of scenarios and examples to drive home his points. There's even a section that provides guidelines for software and scanner selection. A comprehensive, informative book and great reference guide.

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Summary: Review by Scanning and OCR Teacher
Review: So far this is the only book I know of available on OCR and I have been researching over four years for two scanning classes I teach at a local community college. This probably is because not many people who own scanners actually have need of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Those who do, such as office workers and librarians, will learn a great deal about preparing documents before attempting to scan/ocr. The author obviously has been involved in OCR since early days and provides manual solutions rather than explaining features in newer and more helpful OCR software. Creating forms in OCR is not covered.