Converting a tourist guide made easy
I have a paper copy of the Illinois tourist guide that I wanted to put online. This proved to be more of a problem than I had anticipated as I did want to edit things once I got them into the computer. I tried to just scan the brochure, but that only gave me an image and it is difficult to cut and paste words into an image. Then I decided to run it through an OCR program and that got me all the text, but none of the pictures. What I finally ended up with was a combination of the two methods. I scanned the entire document to get the image loaded. Then I went in with an image editor and cut blocks out where the text was. I took the text from the OCR and formatted it to fit in the same size block as I cut from the image, then I pasted them in the holes. This was a long drawn out project and was way too time consuming. I need to develop a program that can distinguish images from words, OCR the words and place them beside the images. That shouldn’t be too hard should it?
Filed under: Business Software, Downloading, Ecommerce, Maps
