"Eyal" <ezinder@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you, Bob.
>
> I'm really trying to put together a large-scale automation process.. I
> don't
> know if Office* will do.
>
> I have thousands of legal documents that I need to REGEx through and
> capture
> key values from the image, such as addresses, dollar amounts, full name
> and
> such..
>
> I have all the REGEx queries ready to go.. but I need a way to basically
> run
> through a thousand images an hour, convert to text, save full text and
> selective segments in a database for cataloging.
>
> I can't really use the Office* application for this. However, if I could
> somehow use the available Office* .dll to dynamically process the images
> from
> my C# code, without launching the Office* application, that could be a way
> to
> go about it.
>
> Is that possible?
>
> "Bob Powell [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> I suggest that you take the angle of getting some of the office
>> automation
>> to work for you.
>>
>> I don't know exactly what's available but I don't think you should be
>> investicating writing your own OCR or any such solution.
>>
>> I know that there is OCR built in to Office so theoretically you could
>> use
>> COM automation or at a pinch a Process.Start call to kick it off.
>>
>> Perhaps you'd be better off over in one of the office groups.
>>
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>> "Eyal" <ezinder@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:F63C76DA-C629-4565-A25D-4123A8871B79@microsoft.com...
>> > Hello all.
>> >
>> > I'm a C# (web) developer, with a task to convert thousands of TIFF
>> > images
>> > into text. I am trying to do so programatically with .NET.
>> >
>> > Can anyone tell me how to use OCR in .NET?
>> > Is there a built-in library?
>> > Any tutorials / examples?
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance, for all your help.
>>
>>
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